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My card issuer really wants me to use my Banana Republic Visa. 200 bonus points per transaction now through 12/31 - ty97 Nov 5, 07:25
where's andrea? -- nm - sheriff peggy ann Nov 5, 07:19 2
- I know! I know! Giving Jian Ghomeshi "the What For"! -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 5, 07:22
- Toronto most days -- nm - ty97 Nov 5, 07:20
Missouri Governor will have a teleconference on “the future of the NFL in St. Louis” in about a half hour. -- (link) - spamlet Nov 5, 07:16 1
- Kick em to the curb! - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 07:19
I must have missed this last month: FDNY has a tran firefighter -- (link) - ty97 Nov 5, 07:13 3
- so he'll be on the hook *and* ladder truck -- nm - Lou SeguZi, wheel alignment inspector Nov 5, 13:30
- Got something against Vietnamese? -- nm - con_carne Nov 5, 07:14 1
  - Only that Pearl Harbor thing. -- nm - ty97 Nov 5, 07:16
If you're a Prime member, get $10 in credit if you buy $45 in giftcards -- (link) - spamlet Nov 5, 06:55 1 1
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So, Interstellar (no spoilers) - spamlet Nov 5, 06:52 2
- speaking of movies. I extra super love the poster for the theory of everything. -- (link) - sheriff peggy ann Nov 5, 07:17
- Thanks for that. Good read. -- nm - Loyola Nov 5, 07:04
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- What is interesting about this is that polls appear to skew toward Republicans during presidential years and Democrats during mid-terms. - David Nov 5, 07:10
- somebody wake up Unskewed Polls guy! -- nm - Tim Nov 5, 06:52 1
  - There are no strings on me. -- nm - Ultron Pollster Nov 5, 06:56
Dan Patrick - Taylor Swift's song is Shake it off not Shake it Up -- nm - amoxy Nov 5, 06:45 7
- That's a catchy ass song. -- nm - Shaun Nov 5, 06:58 3
  - It is easily my least fav of her songs I have heard. -- nm - Spawndroid Nov 5, 07:04 2
    - I wasn't a huge fan but my wife has been playing it while the little one goes beserk in the Jolly Jumper, so it has a bit of meaning for me :) -- nm - Shaun Nov 5, 07:06 1
      - berserk... -- nm - Shaun Nov 5, 07:08
- and not shake it out. -- (link) - sheriff peggy ann Nov 5, 06:47 [youtube] 2
  - What about Shake It Twice? -- nm - CranBaronies Nov 5, 07:04
  - I only clicked cause I wanted to see the IM. - spamlet Nov 5, 06:48
Gold Glove winners announced -- (link) - Beaker Nov 5, 06:44
I apparently suck a polls T.T -- nm - Roocrow Nov 5, 06:37 3
- True (this is a poll, right?) - prayformojo Nov 5, 07:04 1
  - I could make a poll about making polls. (irony?) -- nm - Roocrow Nov 5, 07:08
- nah - it is pretty early - not a lot of people are here necessarily yet. -- nm - Andie Nov 5, 06:47
AHS brought the cra-reepy last episode. (big Spoilers) - Mel Profit Nov 5, 06:34 14
- I agree - that was pretty good. I'm going to miss *spoils* - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 06:54 5
  - spoiler - Diva Nov 5, 07:14
  - You had to figure... - Mel Profit Nov 5, 07:03 3
    - oh yes. just a question of when - I also think *spoil speculation* - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 07:09 2
      - agreed. - Mel Profit Nov 5, 07:17
      - agree on all counts. -- nm - Diva Nov 5, 07:14
- This season is on par with the first. (I didn't enjoy the last two seasons.) Also (major spoilers) - JaxSean Nov 5, 06:36 7
  - (spoilers) - Mel Profit Nov 5, 06:41
  - *future spoils* - Ender Nov 5, 06:40 5
    - spoils - Diva Nov 5, 06:45 4
      - I like Wes Bentley a lot *spoils* - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 06:56 3
        
        spoils - Diva Nov 5, 07:13
        
        I wondered about that too... - Mel Profit Nov 5, 07:05 1
        
        Mmm hmm -- nm - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 07:10
Jian Ghomeshi hires very prominent (female) lawyer to defend him. Just last week she was using him as a joke in a speech she gave at a dinner. -- (link) - Andie Nov 5, 06:34 2
- until this article I didn't know that a man has come forward as well. -- nm - Diva Nov 5, 07:22
- Punches her in the head! -- nm - Jian Nov 5, 06:35
Dear Google, WHY DO YOU INSIST ON NOT WANTING ME TO DELETE EMAILS?!?!?! -- nm - Ender Nov 5, 06:32 7
- Yeah. Are you using Inbox? It's even worse. -- nm - spamlet Nov 5, 06:45 3
  - Yeah, Inbox. Gmail at least has the trash can at the top of the page. -- nm - Ender Nov 5, 06:52 2
    - It's a lot of extra steps to actually delete something. It's the one thing that drives me nuts about it. - spamlet Nov 5, 06:53 1
      - one of the swipes should really be a delete -- nm - decline Nov 5, 06:56
- data is data. Gotta catch it all! -- nm - Google Nov 5, 06:41
- because you may need those 2000+ ad emails from Amazon that became irrelavent the day after you received them. -- nm - decline Nov 5, 06:38 1
  - Clearly 6 years from now I'm going to need this Thank You email from the State Auditor for being reelected. -- nm - Ender Nov 5, 06:41
Oh look, Activision had a really great quarter. Apparently this surprised some people. -- nm - CranBaronies Nov 5, 06:32 4
- is that a thanksgiving nick? it is *wonderful.* -- nm - sheriff peggy ann Nov 5, 06:51
- I wonder if they'll have a good Q4...? -- nm - Shaun Nov 5, 06:38 2
  - That COD: Advanced Warfare commercial I saw was incrediblely appealing, and I am not an FPS guy. -- nm - CranBaronies Nov 5, 06:45 1
    - I've read the campaign is pretty epic for set pieces and big explosions, but I'm not a big COD fan at all. I'm still in 100% Destiny mode as well. -- nm - Shaun Nov 5, 07:09
5 Movies For Kids That Stole Their Plot from Adult Movies -- (link) - Beaker Nov 5, 06:27
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- We should just ask the Republicans. The fed is weak while state and local gov'ts are strong. Mission accomplished. What's next? -- nm - con_carne Nov 5, 07:13 1
  - Assault rifles for everyone! -- nm - Loyola Nov 5, 07:17
- It's alternating wave elections until the Dems properly GOTV or the GOP goes off the deep end completely. -- nm - Tim Nov 5, 06:26
- We need a new system to election representatives. This current system doesn't work and causes gridlock when things are narrowly divided. - Fitz Matush Nov 5, 06:26 6
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    - Then there's no end point. We'll do this until we either burn out as a country or one party has complete control. - Fitz Matush Nov 5, 06:30 3
      - How would we "fix" the two party system? - Strongbad Nov 5, 06:48 2
        
        By getting rid of it altogether. The problem is that it doesn't properly represent the people. - Krispy Nov 5, 06:58 1
        
        OK. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 5, 07:00
  - *elect* -- nm - Fitz Matush Nov 5, 06:26
- Not to mention our dollar continues to get weaker and we continue to borrow $, adding to our debt. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 5, 06:23 14
  - Huh?!? The dollar has been getting stronger. -- nm - Fitz Matush Nov 5, 06:27 2
    - Recently? Yes. Over the past say, 20-30 years? - Strongbad Nov 5, 06:30
    - And borrowing while the interest rate is basically zero is a smart thing. We should borrow a whole lot more and get some infrastructure work going. -- nm - Fitz Matush Nov 5, 06:29
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    - Why I believe it is a bad thing - Strongbad Nov 5, 06:43 3
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        I understand that is how almost all countries are run. - Strongbad Nov 5, 07:28
      - except the bill doesn't actually "have to be paid by someone at some point" - znufrii Nov 5, 06:57
    - We've had some recent good news, yes, compared to some startling numbers from 2009-2012. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 5, 06:33
  - The dollar is strengthening, interest rates are super low, and we're adding much less debt than previous years. -- nm - ty97 Nov 5, 06:25
  - you say that like those are necessarily bad things. -- nm - znufrii Nov 5, 06:25 2
    - So they're good things? -- nm - Strongbad Nov 5, 06:25 1
      - they can be: a weak dollar drives export growth, deficit spending (especially at historically low interest rates) drives overall economic activity. -- nm - znufrii Nov 5, 06:27
  - Well, that shit ain't changing at all. No one in Congress or the White House is going to solve that - Will Hunting Nov 5, 06:24
- It's fine,t he trickling down will kick in soon and everything will be better. -- nm - ty97 Nov 5, 06:20
- the end point? revolution. - znufrii Nov 5, 06:18 2
  - yes really - let them eat cake and off with their heads - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 06:29
  - Mockingjay! -- nm - Beaker Nov 5, 06:20
More workplace allegations made against Jian Ghomeshi -- (link) - Beaker Nov 5, 06:17 1
- and per my post last night about him looking creepy, look at the pic leading this story - Beaker Nov 5, 06:19
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- I think everyone I voted for (with the exception of the token competition against Ann Wagner) won. -- nm - spamlet Nov 5, 06:47
- did Captain Jack Sparrow win? -- nm - Beaker Nov 5, 06:41 1
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- I think all of mine won except for a County Commissioner and a tax levy. -- nm - Ender Nov 5, 06:39
- The only race I cared about, the toadie lost. He's like the only Republican to lose here of the village idiot club. So yay! - Will Hunting Nov 5, 06:21 1
  - Couldn't get your lieutenant elected? Yeah, bye bye national aspirations. -- nm - Tim Nov 5, 06:25
- Dayton? -- nm - Tim Nov 5, 06:17 1
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- I think about half of the people I voted for lost, but that was expected since I voted third party in those cases. - ty97 Nov 5, 06:17 1
  - Maloney appears to have survived but Hayworth has not conceded. -- nm - Tim Nov 5, 06:20
B2: we had a squirrel destroy two of our pumpkins. Chewed a hole into them and then ate all the seeds. Bastard left a huge mess - Beaker Nov 5, 06:05 1
- Dude, when someone puts a giant pile of Halloween candy in front of you, don't you eat it? -- nm - Squirrel Nov 5, 06:07
Big Boo from Orange is the New Black took on a hate-spewing preacher on the subway yesterday. -- (link) - Fitz Matush Nov 5, 06:05
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- It's a GOTV issue for the Democrats. More youth voters would lead to a higher percentage for Dems. -- nm - Tim Nov 5, 06:13 1
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- I've never found that generic 'Congressional Control' question to be useful. - ty97 Nov 5, 06:04 1
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- Not me. This is what happens: - Tim Nov 5, 06:11 3
  - yeah at what point does he just give up and say " fine, yall run this shit into the ground" -- nm - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 06:32 1
    - Lol -- nm - Loyola Nov 5, 07:02
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- That's what I said! - Fitz Matush Nov 5, 06:01 16
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    - Could it be that if he had better people around him things would be in a much better place for him? - Fitz Matush Nov 5, 06:17 5
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        That's what I meant by better, less Yes men and more independent thinkers. -- nm - Fitz Matush Nov 5, 06:38 3
        
        There's a bit of a chicken and the egg thing. Is he a "failure" because he's surrounded by Yes Men, or is he surrounded by Yes Men because he's a "failure"? - Ender Nov 5, 06:59 1
        
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        I don't know...he is what he is. I think it's in large part why Rahm ran back home so quickly. - Will Hunting Nov 5, 06:47
    - No idea I'm classed as an Obamahead, but the last line of your IM is wrong. - ty97 Nov 5, 06:09 8
      - I don't see why people are expecting this to happen though, he's reached the point where he's actively by any political calculus, irrelevent - Will Hunting Nov 5, 06:12 6
        
        I guess that's my point. He has nothing to lose. - ty97 Nov 5, 06:13 5
        
        It might happen, but given what we've seen from him since 2009, I'd think it's much more wishful thinking than borne out by reality. - Will Hunting Nov 5, 06:18 3
        
        I don't expect effective leadership under the circumstances, I just can't understand via basic logic how even weak Obama - ty97 Nov 5, 06:21 2
        
        He won't 'rubber stamp' it. He will hold fast right up till we run into the crisis of the quarter (when's the debt ceiling due again?) - Will Hunting Nov 5, 06:23 1
        
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- one can dream. -- nm - znufrii Nov 5, 06:00
Did any GOP House incumbents lose yesterday? -- nm - Will Hunting Nov 5, 05:53 2
- FL-2. LA-5 is in a runoff. -- nm - Strongbad Nov 5, 05:57
- No. -- (link) - znufrii Nov 5, 05:56
SS Polls: Have you given some good ideas to your stalker yet? -- nm - Roocrow Nov 5, 05:52 3
- only a few ideas. Early times yet. -- nm - Diva Nov 5, 06:49
- no. -- nm - Beaker Nov 5, 06:33
- probably not but its early yet -- nm - Pippy Turkey Stuffer Nov 5, 06:33
*wakes up from a bad dream, Dallas-style* -- nm - ty97 Nov 5, 05:49 3
- My plan for "kick them all out" in Illinois was only partially successful - oblique Nov 5, 05:57 2
  - I see Mike "Let My People Go" Bost pushed out Bill Enyart. That surprised me a little. -- nm - CranBaronies Nov 5, 06:10
  - No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in. nm - ralph wiggum Nov 5, 06:02

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