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Prop 8 sets a pretty interesting precedent. Can we pass an amendment prohibiting Latinos from marrying, for instance? -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 09:58 19
- that could solve all of jack's problems -- nm - Max Nov 7, 10:00
- Atheists shouldn't be allowed to get married, obvie. -- nm - JaxSean Nov 7, 10:00 1
  - Bradley Effect in reverse. "Of course I'm voting against those damn dirty atheists!" -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 10:02
- no, because that would be clearly prohibited under the Supreme Court case of Loving v. Virginia - pigby Nov 7, 10:00 5
  - Then we have to think outside the box. Not race, but gender. We should prohibit all genders from marrying! Then everyone would be equal again. -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 10:03
  - To clarify, a state could amend their Constitution in this way, and then SCOTUS (or a lower court) would overturn it, right? - ty97 Nov 7, 10:03 1
    - Yes, I believe this is right. I suspect - but haven't checked - that a few states have constitutional amendments against abortion, for instance. -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 10:04
  - Sounds like a loophole that could be exploited. -- nm - TaurusII Nov 7, 10:02 1
    - Seeing homosexuality as a "race"? Interesting... -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 10:05
- Probably not in California. Iowa, maybe. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Nov 7, 09:59
- We can amend Constitutions to say anything we want. - ty97 Nov 7, 09:58 8
  - The big question (at least from a constitutional law-geek perspective) is whether Prop 8 was an 'amendment' or a 'revision'. (linky) -- (link) - ReluctantCynic Nov 7, 10:02 1
    - After persuing, before my eyes started crying bloody tears - ty97 Nov 7, 10:09
  - you can't amend state constitutions to say anything that is in violation of the US Constitution. -- nm - pigby Nov 7, 10:02 1
    - (see question to you above please sir) -- nm - ty97 Nov 7, 10:04
  - this drives me a little crazy. you hear people say "It's in the Constitution!!" to defend one thing like that is absolutely infallible, then they - Andie Nov 7, 10:01 1
    - As a point of clarification, maybe not a major one, but just want to make it. There is 1 US Constitution and 50 state Constitutions. - ty97 Nov 7, 10:06
  - No matter how stupid. If we can get enough people to agree with us. -- nm - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:59 1
    - Cool. Can someone prohibit me from marrying? I don't want to pay taxes, either. -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 10:01
LYC: I am eating a huge wrap sandwich that is far too big for my tiny mouth, and I keep getting salad on my nose. -- nm - loosilu Nov 7, 09:56 10
- Talk dirty to it -- that might help. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Nov 7, 10:03
- no wonder you are single -- nm - ty97 Nov 7, 09:59 2
  - oh, shut it. what's your excuse? -- nm - loosilu Nov 7, 09:59 1
    - too busy having orgies to fit in a relationship. - ty97 Nov 7, 10:01
- I bet it's cute. - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:58
- euphemism? -- nm - TFox Nov 7, 09:57 1
  - that...that isn't salad on your nose... -- nm - Beaker Nov 7, 09:58
- What color is the dressing? - con_carne Nov 7, 09:57 2
  - balsamic. and the sandwich has chopped beets in it. -- nm - loosilu Nov 7, 09:57 1
    - *thoroughly disappointed* - con_carne Nov 7, 10:01
ST PSA: Openers halt in 5 minutes. -- nm - emoticripple Nov 7, 09:56
The Sports Guy picks Matt Ryan as his half way point MVP, plus ranks all the NFL teams. -- (link) - Beaker Nov 7, 09:51 1
- So, is it safe to say that all sports writers are utterly dysfunctional essayists? - Mop Nov 7, 10:00
sitwap: Fox does midseason shuffle. - JaxSean Nov 7, 09:51 2
- Jeez. Someone at Fox must be loving Fringe a LOT. -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 10:06
- That Dollhouse bone is so disappointing. -- nm - TFox Nov 7, 09:57
anyone have any idea what kinds of stuff mara's medical flex accounts can be used to pay for? --nm -- nm - prayformojo Nov 7, 09:43 8
- removing her foot from your ass when she reads this post -- nm - pigby Nov 7, 09:48
- Please. Not today. -- nm - Amy Nov 7, 09:48 3
  - The last think I need is more boards, accidental, joking, or not, about medical expenses. -- nm - Amy Nov 7, 09:50 2
    - How is Spawn doing? Is the procedure done yet? -- nm - amoxy Nov 7, 09:50 1
      - He's there now. I think, after this, he'll have one or two more appointments. -- nm - Amy Nov 7, 09:52
- crumb cake -- nm - ty97 Nov 7, 09:45
- in December, we will go and buy Advil, children's tylenol, tums, etc. We will use it eventually and we have to spend that money or lose so why not - bigsugar Nov 7, 09:45
- boob implants for everyone! -- nm - Max Nov 7, 09:45
"We have maybe 4 years left, maybe even only 2 years for the USD to remain anything at all" -- (link) - Loyola Nov 7, 09:38 3
- Gloomy. But interesting. -- nm - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:53
- Wow, thanks for that. As if I wasn't being eaten alive by anxiety already. -- nm - emoticripple Nov 7, 09:53 1
  - :) Sorry -- nm - Loyola Nov 7, 10:10
I loathe you technical geeks sometimes. - Mel Profit Nov 7, 09:37 8
- "Jiggle the wires" -- nm - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:50 2
  - Don't let out the magical blue smoke -- nm - VMan Nov 7, 09:51 1
    - "Do you still have the box the computer came in?" -- nm - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:52
- Yeah, the medical world is so much better. *rolls eyes* -- nm - JaxSean Nov 7, 09:43 2
  - try talking to Teck Geeks in...the medical world. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 7, 09:44 1
    - I just vomited a little. - ty97 Nov 7, 09:46
- Engrish -- nm - budice Nov 7, 09:43
- "You pull the plug." -- nm - Hardware Wars Nov 7, 09:41
30 boards earlier this week and now we can't even do 5 before lunch? -- nm - oblique Nov 7, 09:33 4
- and only 5 POSTS a day on TT???? -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Nov 7, 09:43
- I was just basking in Friend love on FB. But, I'm back now :-) -- nm - con_carne Nov 7, 09:42
- I was reading rabid unfounded economic postulations so that's my excuse. -- nm - Loyola Nov 7, 09:40
- just ask mara to tell us a little bit more about her flex spending account -- nm - decline Nov 7, 09:39
roadmap to a permanent republican minority -- (link) - znufrii Nov 7, 09:28 26
- "Don't get cocky, kid[s]." -- nm - Han Vermin Nov 7, 09:35 15
  - It'll be interesting to see what the GOP does... - Mel Profit Nov 7, 09:43 5
    - I do see a forthcoming amplification of the 'culture wars'. I hate the 'culture wars'. -- nm - crash davis Nov 7, 09:46 4
      - sure, if your position is repudiated, simply repeat it louder, and then smirk like you scored a mighty ideological blow. - znufrii Nov 7, 09:50 2
        
        The electorate moved on them...they can just as easily move back. - Mel Profit Nov 7, 09:58
        
        It worked for Bush for eight years. How was she to know? -- nm - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:51
      - the culture wars are not going away anytime soon. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 7, 09:49
  - well, as long as you're okay with the uber-right wing of the GOP condemning the party to irrelevance... - znufrii Nov 7, 09:38 7
    - I'd rather see the uber-right wing of the GOP break off and fade away all by its lonesome. -- nm - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:56 2
      - not likely, imho. -- nm - znufrii Nov 7, 09:57 1
        
        I agree. - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:59
    - Who's to say this approach is wrong? McCain lost by 5%. If the base had been motivated, could he have turned that 5% - ty97 Nov 7, 09:43 3
      - If he had motivated the base to get that 5%, how much more of the center would he have lost in the process? -- nm - znufrii Nov 7, 09:47 2
        
        The base didn't find McCain distasteful. It's just that economic concerns trump all other issues when voters are looking at potential job losses down - Loyola Nov 7, 09:58 1
        
        this is true. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 7, 10:01
  - Thank you Mr. Cowboy. I'll take it under advisement. -- nm - Hans Gruber Nov 7, 09:37
- So...John McCain essentially killed the Moderate wing of the GOP? - Mel Profit Nov 7, 09:35
- one-party control forever? no thanks. -- nm - ty97 Nov 7, 09:29 8
  - best case scenario: the GOP continues its right turn into irrelevance, and the Dems take over the center, allowing progressively liberal parties to - znufrii Nov 7, 09:34 6
    - I remember talk of how the DNC was finished as a national party after '04. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 7, 09:43 5
      - *nods*. You woudl think McCain lost 80-20 -- nm - ty97 Nov 7, 09:47 4
        
        neither of them is going away anytime soon. - Mel Profit Nov 7, 09:49 3
        
        there isn't a single GOP congressperson left in New England -- nm - pigby Nov 7, 09:51 2
        
        In the defense of the GOP we in NE are pretty much just crazy, commie, dog fuckers. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 7, 10:00
        
        in the House, at least. They've still got Snowe and Collins in the Senate -- nm - znufrii Nov 7, 09:52
  - it's not really the democrats' call to make -- nm - pigby Nov 7, 09:31
If I can offer a movie this weekend: Role Models -- nm - budice Nov 7, 09:28
Palin staffer saying "of course Sarah knows that Africa is a continent, of course she knows the members of NAFTA, these notions are so far out of the - CrankYanker Nov 7, 09:21 24
- I imagine when (not if) she re-appears on the national stage, she will be *very* well studied. -- nm - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:38 7
  - I don't think she will, she will not recover from this...She is Dan Quayle the second -- nm - amoxy Nov 7, 09:49 2
    - I think you underestimate her ambition. And her capacity for denial. -- nm - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:53 1
      - Maybe, but that does not change the perception of her - amoxy Nov 7, 10:02
  - why would she be? the point of her whole schtick is that she's not one of those elite washington liberal eggheads with their "big fat resumes" -- nm - pigby Nov 7, 09:40 1
    - See above response. -- nm - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:54
  - and hopefully by that time the American people will have progressed enough to see the flaws in her ideology instead of having to harp on the flaws of - znufrii Nov 7, 09:40 1
    - We can but hope. - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:54
- I heard she's so dumb, she thought soy milk was spanish for "I am milk." - Dr.Vermin Nov 7, 09:34
- The McCain staffers have a lot of nerve heel turning on someone that 9 weeks ago they were fronting to the American public - Diva Nov 7, 09:28 2
  - I agree...It may be true what they are saying about Gov Palin - amoxy Nov 7, 09:38 1
    - She is who she is and they knew this. -- nm - Diva Nov 7, 09:54
- Reminds me of TAL recently that discussed long-held misbeliefs. "Sarah Palin thought a unicorn was a real animal and Xing signs are pronounced 'Zing' -- nm - rollo Nov 7, 09:26
- no there is no video. it's mccain staffers' word -- nm - pigby Nov 7, 09:24 1
  - can you imagine if they drop a tape off somewhere -- nm - budice Nov 7, 09:26
- it doesn't matter anymore. - Mel Profit Nov 7, 09:24
- to the best of my knowledge not ot the Africa thing, which I really am having a tough time believing -- nm - crash davis Nov 7, 09:24 7
  - I can believe that she made a grammar mistake akin to Bushism which sounded dumber than she is. -- nm - Max Nov 7, 09:40 6
    - yeah, I think it could be "Which country should we send aid to?" "Africa"....something silly like that -- nm - crash davis Nov 7, 09:42 5
      - agreed. no way she doesn't know. -- nm - Mel Profit Nov 7, 09:46
      - My newest theory is that this whole ribkick-Sarah-on-her-way-home movement is to soften expectations... - Dr.Vermin Nov 7, 09:46 3
        
        I think it has nothing to do with Biden. The McCain folks need jobs, they just lost an election, and they want to place blame elsewhere so their - crash davis Nov 7, 09:48 2
        
        It doesn't feel like the "McCain folks" are driving it. - Dr.Vermin Nov 7, 09:55 1
        
        these things had to come from somewhere, and some details (especially the financial ones) are just too knowledge specific -- nm - crash davis Nov 7, 09:57
So long everyone - I'm headed off to Portugal, after which I'll compete with Reagen for who took the best photos. See you Monday week. -- nm - Roger More Nov 7, 09:19 4
- nice! -- nm - CrankYanker Nov 7, 09:23
- stalker -- nm - pigby Nov 7, 09:20
- Bye Roger. Buy us something nice. -- nm - Loyola Nov 7, 09:20
- Have a great time! -- nm - ty97 Nov 7, 09:20
GA Sec'y of State now has Chambliss with 49.8%. Runoff appears certain. -- (link) - budice Nov 7, 09:18
Michelle Obama is the Black Widow -- (link) - CrankYanker Nov 7, 09:15
ST Quiz: Georgia had elections for 56 State Senate seats. How many of the races were uncontested? -- nm - SlumDano Millionaire Nov 7, 09:13 4
- The answer is.... 38 -- nm - SlumDano Millionaire Nov 7, 09:28
- 33 -- nm - ty97 Nov 7, 09:14 1
  - Make that 23 -- nm - ty97 Nov 7, 09:14
- 47 -- nm - znufrii Nov 7, 09:13
In other financial news, Las Vegas Sands Corp (who's stock is off 95% from it's 52 week high) may go under - decline Nov 7, 09:12
Third missile strike into Pakistan. This is Bush throwing rocks at the hornets nest when Obama is walking toward it. -- nm - CrankYanker Nov 7, 09:09
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- We had 56% turnout, but our County is the Republican hub of SoCal. McCain won here 50-47% -- nm - budice Nov 7, 09:10
- 70% in our county, which was down from 2004. -- nm - CQ with a gravy boat Nov 7, 09:07
- Minnesota Vikings -- nm - oblique Nov 7, 09:07
a transcript from Fox News on whether Oprah is going political- I link it because Huckabee says "Chuck Norris!" -- (link) - crash davis Nov 7, 09:04
SITWAP: In her new role as second-class citizen, Melissa Ethridge to stop paying California taxes. -- (link) - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:03 6
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  - I imagine she has the wherewithal to relocate to another state, if she really wants to. -- nm - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:09 3
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      - IMHO, the inconvenience of moving would be dwarfed by the legal hassles of non-payment. -- nm - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:15 1
        
        Why give up your home because your neigbhors have issues with you? - ty97 Nov 7, 09:27
- That's actually a pretty novel way to go about it, but she hasn't to be willing to follow through and take it all the way to really have an impact. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 7, 09:05
Capital One's internet payment system is down. I call to do a phone payment and the recording says there's a $10 fee to pay by phone and if I want to - CrankYanker Nov 7, 09:02
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- McCain didn't turn out his base the way Bush did -- nm - pigby Nov 7, 09:01
Yikes. They halted trading of GM -- nm - oblique Nov 7, 08:58 12
- Eeep! What does that do to the Dow? -- nm - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:06 3
  - wait, the headlines are weird. They halted prior to the announcement. Maybe trading again now? -- nm - oblique Nov 7, 09:07 2
    - Seems to be trading -- (link) - ty97 Nov 7, 09:11 1
      - Of course, that activity is twenty minutes old..... -- nm - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:12
- I hope it adjusts up. -- nm - SlumDano Millionaire Nov 7, 09:05
- Before I seem like a total jerk, let me be clear that if GM (or Ford) fails, I feel horrible for all of the people effected. - ty97 Nov 7, 09:01 4
  - I will feel bad for all the ordinary people working there. - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:06
  - I'm extra glad I'm not working for the auto parts mfg anymore -- nm - oblique Nov 7, 09:04 2
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      - I go past a big GM plant on my way to work. They build a lot of the trucks and SUVs there. -- nm - TaurusII Nov 7, 09:14
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- holy shit. -- nm - pilgrims and indians love mandy lane Nov 7, 08:59
Help solve a coworker argument: Is it biologicially possible that a woman simply cannot have an orgasm? (Shad up, it's Friday.) -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 7, 08:55 13
- a friend of mine told me about a year ago of a girl who is a friend of his, acquaintance to me, is unable to climax... - i'm not dead yet ! Nov 7, 09:06
- I think I read something about this. A large percentage of women apparently are phsyically incapable. -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 09:01 2
  - See ML's link. Says 10-15% have never and another portion have had one or two only and can't anymore. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 7, 09:06 1
    - "I wasted that on YOU?!?" -- nm - oblique Nov 7, 09:10
- i wish that were true :( -- nm - pigby Nov 7, 08:57
- Never heard of such a notion -- nm - con_carne Nov 7, 08:57
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  - Believe you me, I wouldn't be asking if I didn't have someone watching over my shoulder at the moment. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Nov 7, 08:58 2
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      - Wow. One in ten ladies have never felt the Big "O". That's something. - Name Withheld By Request Nov 7, 09:04
  - Spontaneous dental hydroplasty -- nm - oblique Nov 7, 08:57
- I wouldn't discount that possibility. We live in a crazy world. -- nm - oblique Nov 7, 08:56
- well, i imagine it's possible. -- nm - Andie Nov 7, 08:56
I love the CQ pile-on on B2. A little nasty, but all in good fun. Happy b-day to your wife. -- nm - Mop Nov 7, 08:55 1
- that was a pile on? weak. and thanks, heh -- nm - CQ with a gravy boat Nov 7, 08:55
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- who is this girl? and how can i see for myself if she's hawt? -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Nov 7, 09:06 1
  - not sure which, but something from this site -- (link) - con_carne Nov 7, 09:59
- It's common knowledge that blue has the hotter chicks. - ty97 Nov 7, 08:58 1
  - And Mystique! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Nov 7, 09:58
- You can have her. I'm going after #10 -- nm - oblique Nov 7, 08:55
In the future, the iPhone will cook your breakfast. -- (link) - Mop Nov 7, 08:54 1
- I, for one, welcome our smartphone overlords. -- nm - mafic Nov 7, 08:56

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