Why heterosexual marriage is in danger from the gays

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Saturday November 08, 2008 · 12:14 PM PST

2008/11/08 · 12:14

For the past year, I, like most people, have been focused primarily on the Presidential election (as well as the Senate one here in NC). It came as a bit of a surprise to me that Arizona, Florida, and California had ballot measures to amend their state constitutions to define marriage as between one man and one woman. It came as a bigger surprise that these measures passed in all three states.

There are several things about the arguments that get bandied about by those who support these amendments that as a thinking logical individual fill me with complete outrage.

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Friday October 13, 2006 · 9:21 PM PDT

2006/10/13 · 21:21

Earlier this afternoon, I saw the following article from AP:
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By ROBERT BURNS
AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Results from an initial air sampling after North Korea's announced nuclear test showed no evidence of radioactive particles that would be expected from a successful nuclear detonation, a U.S. government intelligence official said Friday.

Just now when I logged in, it's been changed to this:

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By ROBERT BURNS and ANNE GEARAN
(AP) North Koreans chat on the waterfront at the North Korean city of Sinuiju, opposite the Chinese...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - An air sampling taken after North Korea's claimed nuclear test detected radioactive debris consistent with an atomic explosion, Bush administration and congressional officials said Friday night. They said no final determination had been made about the nature of last weekend's mystery-shrouded blast.

Now I understand revising articles, but that's a complete 180. Anyone know what gives?
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Raleigh Drinking Liberally Tues 6-9p @ Flying Saucer

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Monday March 13, 2006 · 7:23 PM PST

2006/03/13 · 19:23

Next week we're going to Durham as well- stay tuned for details! This week still at the Saucer.

Cross posted at BlueNC

News roundup:
1- Buy tuna fish & dried milk to help get prepared for bird flu (soo don't get this one).
2- Who needs bird flu when we've got mad cow?
3- Or having to raise the debt ceiling? Again?
4- That's ok. Things are going swimmingly in Iraq. See? And here?
5- Remember those ports? Seems a little like the details of DP World losing interest were slightly exaggerated.
6- The prosecution may have screwed up the case against the only person we've brought a case against that was possibly involved in 9/11.
7- Sen. Russ Feingold calls for censuring the president.
8- Bush's approval rating now at 36%.

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Raleigh Drinking LIberally

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Tuesday March 07, 2006 · 7:43 AM PST

2006/03/07 · 07:43

It's tuesday again, and we're out at the Saucer tonight. Events from the past week, in case you've missed them:

1- Congrats to Jason & Amy (DL regulars) on getting hitched!

2- We're having a guest tonight from the Huntsville, AL DL- come show Joe that we can drink more in NC.

3- Military experts now think that we're in a full blown civil war in Iraq.

4- A new video shows Bush got a briefing on the possibility of the levees failing, and did absolutely nothing.

5- Walmart will now stock Plan B pills in its pharmacies. It will, however, still not force pharmacists to actually fill the prescription. God forbid they did the same with diabetes medicine.

6- Of course, this probably won't apply in South Dakota, which has banned most forms of abortion.

And finally:

7- In an effort to be creative with the Federal Debt ceiling, Treasury Secretary Snow has been tapping the federal retirement funds.

See all y'all tonight! Directions/Location in the cut.

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Something obvious about the London Explosions

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Friday July 08, 2005 · 6:23 AM PDT

2005/07/08 · 06:23

I noticed this yesterday, and was waiting for someone to mention it, but it seems to have been missed.

King's Cross is a main interconnecting point between the Tube and the National Rail. Loads of commuters come in through this station. It also has the inbound train from the Luton airport, where a lot of European flights come in to. The bomb went off on the way to this station.

Liverpool Station is also a National Rail connector, but is also the point where the Stansted Express inbound train comes to from the airport. The bomb went off just before the train reached this station.

And for Edgware Road: the bomb went off on the train headed towards Paddington Station - the spot for yet another main National Rail connector, and for the Heathrow Express train.

My thought? They all went off a few seconds/minutes early.

My letter to Congress

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Thursday December 16, 2004 · 1:18 PM PST

2004/12/16 · 13:18

Sent this to Pelosi, Brad Miller (my Representative), and David Price (neighboring representative). More below. Read More

Error statistics

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Tuesday November 30, 2004 · 3:03 PM PST

2004/11/30 · 15:03

So I was reading over on the RudePundit and he brings up a good point-

has there been any mention whatsoever of an election vote count error being off in Kerry's favor, or have they all been in Bush's favor, and
if that's the case, what's the statistical likelihood that every error would be FOR Bush?

And keep the stupid comments like 100% or 1 in 1 out of it.

Let's screw with the Senate

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Monday November 22, 2004 · 3:12 PM PST

2004/11/22 · 15:12

One thing I think might be interesting.. a 'Party Based' Senate representation. Leave the House the same as it is- population based, majority wins. Switch the Senate to be representative based on major parties in each state.

Example:

State A has large proportions of Dems and Reps. They get two seats - one Dem, one Rep.
State B has Dems, Reps, and Libertarians - great. one of each.
State C has Dems, Reps, Libertarians, Greens - sure.

You can work out 'large' by saying that if a party has at least ( 100% of population / # of parties in state ) members, then it can get an official Senate seat, to keep the parties with only 2 people in them from having an entire say.

Just an idea... if we were starting completely from scratch..

And of course, only the party can vote for their own.

A Democratic Credo

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Thursday November 04, 2004 · 8:28 AM PST

2004/11/04 · 08:28

One of the problems I have seen is the lack of a clearly stated list of beliefs of the Democratic party. While it's great to have a platform, and work to gobs and gobs of issues and programs and whatnot, there are several core things that I feel that should be itemized.

I put together this list in attempt to work out some anger, frustration, and ignorance in discussions with several Republicans I know. Read More

2004 vs 2000 - state by state. Funny numbers?

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Wednesday November 03, 2004 · 10:12 AM PST

2004/11/03 · 10:12

Guys - the numbers for state by state don't quite look right, compared to 2000. Take CA for instance - 1 million didn't vote? FL - Bush gets 900k more voters despite dems out-registering?

Does anyone have any idea what the heck's going on? And more than just 'they rigged it'. I know these are "safe" states, but it might be applicable across the board.

All from CNN as of 12 EST.

More after jump.

Update [2004-11-3 14:46:10 by davecarden]: Added the percentage increase/decrease in turnout. Read More

NC 2004 election preview

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Friday October 22, 2004 · 2:27 PM PDT

2004/10/22 · 14:27

After much smashing of numbers together, I've worked out my guess for the NC election as of today, 10/22. The methodology is this:

1- new registrants will vote their party
2- old registrants will vote based in current poll data (Survey USA 10/15-17)

And 1/2 a dozen other excel formulas later, we get the following. I don't claim to be in any way, shape, or form a poll analyst, so take it as you will.
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