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    SCOTUS rules: gay marriage approved

    I disagree. Gay marriage can be framed as discrimination based on sexual preference or based on gender (A man can marry a woman but a woman can't marry that same woman). Gender is specifically a protected class. With polygamy, it is discrimination based on whether you are currently married...
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    So the police know

    And there's one every 2km in the city. Every 500m in the downtown areas.
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    Texas' Perry indicted for coercion for veto threat

    I think there's a difference between political concessions and asking for the resignation of an elected official (sorry, Canuck here and I may be wrong on her being elected). If there's no limit to threatening to veto, I don't see why the above details would change anything. He wouldn't have...
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    EBOLA Panic Panic Panic Panic Poll Poll Poll Poll ...................................

    I work with many 20 somethings. None of them do that. I believe your problem is not one of age, but of workplace. Even still, why do you assume that they will continue to act like that in their 30s and 40s? I don't freak out about the future of mankind because my daughter occasionally pees...
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    KS: Fill 100 water balloons at once

    Add up what it costs to take your kids to the movies. That's a lot of water balloons.
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    Official 2013-2014 NBA Playoffs Thread

    Or Robert Horry.
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    Sterling suing NBA for $1 Billion

    There's zero chance this goes to the Supreme Court. His wife got control of the trust and sold the team. The NBA hasn't done anything. And even if they did, he agreed to allow them to take his team to sell it. And there is no illegal monopoly here. For one, they are not the only professional...
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    Sterling suing NBA for $1 Billion

    Yes they can force him to do that. He agreed to those rules to be allowed to own an NBA team. He agreed, in writing, that the NBA can take his team away, sell it, and provide him with the proceeds. Either way, the NBA didn't do this. His wife sold the team, so the NBA hasn't done anything here.
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    Official 2013-2014 NBA Playoffs Thread

    How about Deron's sixth foul called on KG even though KG never touched the guy? Deron should have fouled out with 3 min left.
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    Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson accused of saying the n-word; people are freaking out.

    When I was a kid it was "catch a tigger by the toe" as in not pronounced like tiger but pronounced like ****** with a t replacing the n.
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    Toronto Mayor Crack Video REAL

    He kind of is and he kind of isn't. Council stripped him of nearly his entire budget and appointed it to the deputy mayor. Council also stripped him of every power they had the right to and assigned to to the deputy mayor. Some things he still retains though. He still holds the power to...
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    LA Clippers owner racist rant at girlfriend

    I didn't say it was easy, or even that I'd make the decision. Usually taking a stand causes you to have to give up something. Elign Baylor took at least a partial stand, though settling out of court with (assumption alert!) a non-disclosure doesn't help those that come after him. That's goal...
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    LA Clippers owner racist rant at girlfriend

    True. There are a lot of people in the NBA who should be mad at themselves for never doing anything about it before. Actually, this was one of the points Kareem made in his article. There's zero chance the players / employees didn't know. I knew as a casual NBA fan that this guy was a racist...
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    Official 2013-2014 NBA Playoffs Thread

    Have you watched any of nets/raps?
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    New Jersey is the latest state to ban Tesla's direct-to-customer car sales

    I've never heard any reason why selling your product direct to customers is bad in any way. What about Apple stores, clothing stores, stores that sell store brand food, corporately owned restaurants? All of those are direct sales from a manufacturer to a customer. Why are they not banned?
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    Obama administration considering killing another US citizen without due process

    This is an interesting turn. Are you claiming abortion is okay as long as the woman was raped? I don't want to jump all over the straw man game here.
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    Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games!

    It's gotta be exaggerated due to multiple channels showing the same thing. There aren't even that many hours during the games.
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    Canadians don't respect the 2nd Amendment

    Maybe I missed something, but I didn't see where he was sentenced to three years in prison. Citing the maximum punishment for a given crime and then debating whether it fits the current circumstances is just a tad premature.
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    Kansas GOP: Desperately fighting to not fund schools

    It is extremely likely that those paying taxes for schools already benefitted from public education.
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    Growing Up Unvaccinated

    That's nice. What does that have to do with the topic, nehalem's post, or my post?
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    Growing Up Unvaccinated

    Gay men can't donate blood in many cases. You can be charged with aggravated assault for having sex without disclosing you have an STD. There are many movements to make contraception free (and certain types are government provided). The infant statistic should instead read: x% of babies are born...
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    Phil Robertson and freedom to have an opinion

    My post didn't imply lots of people were offended by this. Though I imagine the numbers are greater than GLAAD.
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    Phil Robertson and freedom to have an opinion

    And a cup of water is closer to being the ocean than a pepperoni pizza. If someone said the perpetrators of 911 are in heaven, that would be perfectly legal, and they would certainly be afforded 1st amendment protections. It would offend tons of people, and if they were a public figure in any...
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    Phil Robertson and freedom to have an opinion

    There's also a difference between killing 3000 people and talking about others who killed 3000 people. The above poster didn't mention killing 3000 people. He talked about saying those who did it are in heaven. Huge difference. Actually, it's probably the best analogy to what has happened...
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    'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson suspended for comments on homosexuals

    Are you firing all married people? If not, it very much has to do with the person being gay. Do you think that A&E would not suspend an atheist who speaks out against gays? No obvious reasons there to me. It shouldn't matter if I am against homosexuals because of religious reasons or just...
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    'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson suspended for comments on homosexuals

    He didn't come out as a Christian, everyone in the country knew he was Christian, so it is in no way the same as the example above. He came out with specific opinions which happen to be a result of his religion. Had his opinion been that Jewish people are sinners who do not accept Jesus and...
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    'Duck Dynasty' star Phil Robertson suspended for comments on homosexuals

    He was not fired for his religious beliefs. He was fired for his publicizing his religious beliefs. Are you claiming that A&E had no clue of his religious beliefs prior to this incident, after following him around with a camera for years? Do you think if after every time someone asked to...
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    What kind of job do you have? Can we try to get a semi-serious survey?

    See screen name. Retirement practice with a major consulting firm.
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    WTF is this Bitstrip crap? Next FarmVille for stupids?

    No one 'finds humor' in Bitstrip. Bitstrip is a medium.
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    Well, it's official. I'm retarded.

    Those pictures are misleading. The first one would look much better under a collar (you wouldn't even notice the slope). I wear a tie 4 days a week and use both knots. Either can look better or worse based on the specific tie.
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    Judge: Detroit can proceed with bankruptcy -> Pension cuts are on the table

    There have been arguments put forth in Canada that pensions are deferred compensation, and compensation owed often takes priority in bankruptcy proceedings.
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    Boner ready to sell out Americans. Hires amnesty attorney for immigration 'reform'

    So? All that suggests is that senseamp thinks those laws are socialism. He said: There is no comment there in favour of, or opposing, laws that restrict who you can hire.
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    Judge: Detroit can proceed with bankruptcy -> Pension cuts are on the table

    How about longevity risk diversification? Here's a quiz for you: you're 60 years old, recently retired and have $1M in retirement savings. How much can you spend in year 1?
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    Judge: Detroit can proceed with bankruptcy -> Pension cuts are on the table

    Defined benefit pension schemes are not doomed to failure by their nature, neither funded nor unfunded schemes. You may have used a common language explanation, but that does not mean your explanation was correct. They are risky though, and we have seen a shift an adverse change in...
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    Boner ready to sell out Americans. Hires amnesty attorney for immigration 'reform'

    Why should they only be allowed to hire Americans?
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    Boner ready to sell out Americans. Hires amnesty attorney for immigration 'reform'

    Holy logical disconnect batman! He said laws restricting who you can hire are socialism. How is that a sweeping opinion on how he feels about any labour law, unless of course he has a sweeping opinion on any and all socialism?
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    National Republican Party announces racism is over. Ended sometime around 1955?

    If you had read the post you quoted, what I said was So your first comment is arguing against a straw man. Neither world hunger nor racism are in the process of ending. The end of something is very absolute. Even from a more practical perspective, where we allow for something being...
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    National Republican Party announces racism is over. Ended sometime around 1955?

    I think it's a pretty big leap to claim that racism will ever end, even from a practical standpoint. The comparison to a coin toss is silly. Would you say that a referee has contributed to team A winning immediately following the coin toss?
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    National Republican Party announces racism is over. Ended sometime around 1955?

    You aren't imply that, but "furthering our understanding" never implies that we completely understand something. Ending is a much more absolute word. Now that I think about it more, I'm not even sure it was technically valid, but it still doesn't take away from commemorating Rosa Parks'...