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"My favorite fan base in D.C. Is United's. Period. The end." - Steinberg
Which DC sports team has the Most Valuable Players? That would be DC United, a team being pushed out by the city. Help Keep United in DC so they can receive a fair deal on a lease and help develop a path to build a stadium with local investment and incentives.
I know right? It feels so good to finally watch the sun come up as I’m driving to work.
by bathwithtoaster on Feb 7, 2012 8:54 AM EST up reply actions
Argghh.
If you tell me something is your “responsibility,” then that means a failure is your fault. You can’t take the responsibility for success, but not the blame for failure.
I am about to reach through the telephone and strangle someone.
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Deep breaths, Spidey. Count backwards from ten in some other language. Them being jerks is not worth a blood pressure spike.
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I’m paying them eight fucking figures of money, but they don’t hold themselves accountable. Shit rolls up hill at my company. If someone anywhere screws up, then their boss and that person’s boss, etc. are all accountable, whether they knew of the problem or not. I am sick and fucking tired of people passing on the accountability. There are upsides and downsides to responsibility. If you can’t fucking handle the responsibility, then don’t fucking take the responsibility.
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by STLSpidey on Feb 7, 2012 8:57 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I totally agree, I just don’t want you to have stress-induced problems over it. I’m hoping you can breathe and find your calm, then put the screws to them like they deserve.
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I’m fine. Day-Quil, as I’ve written before, is a wonderful drug.
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I can’t see it.
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Spoon – Don’t Make Me A Target
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 7, 2012 10:56 AM EST up reply actions
Jack White – Love Interruption (first single from his forthcoming debut solo album Blunderbuss, which is released April 23)
by Rather Bengt on Feb 7, 2012 11:21 AM EST up reply actions
Hey, I have a glitter fetish. I admit this. On the upside, I can indulge my fetish in public and not get arrested.
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You can at a sci fi/fantasy convention.
Fandom means never having to say, “But where will I ever wear THAT?”
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by WordsOnIce on Feb 7, 2012 9:19 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
You need a ticket for those things right? It’s truly only public when it’s free!
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You can hang out in the hotel lobby for free. It’s like a parade from the fun side of the Id.
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I wanna take handfulls of glitter and just throw them off a building. The people below would be SOOO PISSED!
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fantastic I can imagine the conversation now.
Wife: And just where did all this glitter come from? You were at the strip club again weren’t you?
Husband: No some guy was throwing glitter off the roof of the building as I was walking by.
Wife: oh please that’s the best you can come up with?
Husband: no I swear, he was yelling something about Good Sasha and throwing glitter.
You’re not far off.
When I was leaving a job, I was hugging everyone goodbye. I didn’t realize the new shirt I had on, which had gold glitter on it, was shedding like crazy till I hugged this one guy who was wearing a dark blue shirt.
He looked down at himself in dismay and said, “What is my wife going to think?”
I said, “That you had a sweaty fling with Tinkerbell.”
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I wanna see a full body picture. That color of material under those is pretty close to “nude”.
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OH my god…type in Dolce & Gabanna and hit image search, and your screen will explode with photos of built, tan, oiled up men in very tiny underwears.
boggle
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Actually, I did them all by hand with a hot glue gun. You can thank me later.
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Machine wash, tumble dry?
He's a better skater than Nick, but he's big in the back[side]...BB
by Backeez Got Back on Feb 7, 2012 9:21 AM EST up reply actions
Pandora is being funny
It just went from Destiny’s Child to Linkin Park, from booty bounce to emo angst.
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Any folks know of any Metro-accessible bars/pubs with Fox Soccer Plus that open early on weekends? Anything akin to Nevada Smith’s in NYC?
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I’ll post this question on Twitter. Some of the people who follow me might know.
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Fado’s which is half a block from Chinatown/Gallery has any popular games and they open early for them.
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http://fadoirishpub.com/washington/sports
their schedule
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I haven’t been to the one in DC, but the one in Annapolis has a terrific early morning crowd even for the 8am games. Lots of UK ex-pats as well as homegrown soccer fans show up. Also, a great beer selection and decent food.
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I might have to drag myself out of bed earlier then; don’t want it to fill up for ManU/Liverpool and then not be able to get a seat for Arsenal/Sunderland.
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I don’t follow EPL enough to even remember the kits but I believe Liverpool has an extremely strong showing there. They have plenty of TVs but it can get crowded accordingly.
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What game are you looking for?
"My favorite fan base in D.C. Is United's. Period. The end." - Steinberg
Winning trophies on your home field? DC United's done that. Twice. Help Keep United in DC so they can receive a fair deal on a lease and help develop a path to build a stadium with local investment and incentives.
This Saturday, specifically, Sunderland/Arsenal. Generally, any Arsenal matches that aren’t on ESPN2 or FSC (I don’t get Fox Soccer Plus). And it’d be nice to pick up a Panathinaikos match now and again, but I’m not holding my breath.
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Yeah, you may need a feed for Panathinaikos. ;)
Adding onto the names mentioned above, Ri Ra in Clarendon opens up early also (and I think Four Courts in Arlington does too), and of course there’s always Summers.
"My favorite fan base in D.C. Is United's. Period. The end." - Steinberg
Winning trophies on your home field? DC United's done that. Twice. Help Keep United in DC so they can receive a fair deal on a lease and help develop a path to build a stadium with local investment and incentives.
by Bald Pollack on Feb 7, 2012 10:06 AM EST up reply actions
As an aside rant, the folks who jacked up the rent at Kitty’s and forced Danny out need to EADIAF.
"My favorite fan base in D.C. Is United's. Period. The end." - Steinberg
Winning trophies on your home field? DC United's done that. Twice. Help Keep United in DC so they can receive a fair deal on a lease and help develop a path to build a stadium with local investment and incentives.
by Bald Pollack on Feb 7, 2012 10:11 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah, Summers is a bit of a hike on weekends (especially now that there is always track work; I live near Van Ness), so Fado’s looks to be the way to go.
And all of this reminds me that I need to purchase Barra Brava memberships for myself and my wife this evening.
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Related to the latter, Benny is going to be at Ri Ra on the 19th as part of the SE luncheon, but anyone is welcome of course.
"My favorite fan base in D.C. Is United's. Period. The end." - Steinberg
Winning trophies on your home field? DC United's done that. Twice. Help Keep United in DC so they can receive a fair deal on a lease and help develop a path to build a stadium with local investment and incentives.
by Bald Pollack on Feb 7, 2012 10:16 AM EST up reply actions
Weird things that annoy me — this isn’t journalism:
“The monster who killed himself and his two young sons in a Washington house fire…”
Yes, we can all agree that it was a horrible and tragic act, but that sort of editorializing actually detracts from the attempt to provide useful facts or contextual information. And perhaps the man was mentally ill or rendered incompetent by medication?
I wish there was a journalism standard in this country. There ought to be a certifying board, just like there are for doctors and lawyers, and a standard post-secondary curriculum.
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Any advice on parking down there for a show tomorrow night?
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I’m just concerned about making the metro in time afterwards. What do you suggest?
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what time is the show over, and where are you coming from?
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College Park. I am not sure what time it ends, I would say 1 or 2 ish.
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yeah, 1 or 2 is a serious hurdle. Even if you find a garage, not sure how many are open that late on a weeknight.
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Sounds like I have two options really.
1. Street Parking (If I can find it)
2. Call it an early night (which sucks because the person I want to see at the show is going be the Closing act)
BALLLLSSSSSS
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if the show starts late-ish, you might be in luck. Wednesday night there might still be some on-street parking (you might have to walk a ways, though)
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Doors at 9. But I have dinner plans near 15th and N @ 7. Maybe I’ll go into the city early and scope out the sitch.
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Get a cab?
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by Whiter Mage on Feb 7, 2012 2:45 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
there is a deck, but it’s not cheap.
The later on the night the harder it gets.
I’m just in it for the Schadenfreude. -D'ohboy
by Alz in the family on Feb 7, 2012 11:33 AM EST up reply actions
On a Wednesday night, street parking might not be impossible. I am convinced that I have a parking fairy godmother who provides for me in Adams-Morgan, since I grew up there. Good luck!
If it’s really impossible, you can come park behind my house and take the bus, then catch a cab back here after the show. I only live a mile from there, so it won’t cost much. ;)
LOL, what would I be trapping? The honor of seeing your car in my back yard? Up to you. I would certainly try scoping out the street sitch first, as you never know what you might find. E-mail me and I’ll give you my phone number so you can use my parking spot as a last resort, if you like.
I am just giving you a hard time, as others around here can vouch for. It’s what I’m good at so why quit it?
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Going to Verizon store at lunch
So I’m busy copying out my phone numbers and clearing out things on this phone. :-) I think I’m going to go ahead and stick with iPhone, though.
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I’m sure this post is to late, but if you back-up your iphone at home, you can then restore all that to your new iphone upon purchase.
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I’m back. I dumped the iPhone and got a Droid Razr 4g LTE.
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I’m already shocked at the speed of the internet on this thing. I feel like I’ve come out of a drug coma.
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Feel the power of the 4G LTE network! (Just remember to charge the phone a lot, or turn off data)
"Money talks. I listen."
I need to read the manual. It just said ’DROID" at me and I have no idea why.
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And for those who care, I got a black one and put it in a purple case.
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That’s it’s standard notification sound. You can change it. (Easily add mp3s for this by putting them in right labelled folder, same with ringtones).
"Money talks. I listen."
go get a good AV/Malware scanner. I recommend
Norton Mobile Security Beta (Free) or
AVG Antivirus (Free)
I like AVG. How do I do that for the phone? Through the app store or just through google?
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It’s in the android market.
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 7, 2012 2:47 PM EST up reply actions
Now just throw Google Music on there and you’re in like Flynn.
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I was happy to see the Kindle app already loaded. I logged in, and there’s three books already on there, that I haven’t bought, but the ones I have bought are not showing up. Not sure what to do about that.
On the bright side, one of the preloaded books is Pride & Prejudice, which is one of my all time faves.
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Heh, I almost posted something to that effect, but new exits are delicate. Didn’t want to spook her on her re-immersion into the real world. ;)
Nobody answered my question about how I can get my itunes music on this thing.
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look at doubletwist or songbird. whichever you like better import the MP3 files from your itunes directory into it.
what’s the difference between the two? And can I find these in the android app market?
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Outside of “the family” we call them MP3’s.
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by SethB on Feb 7, 2012 3:24 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Native itunes format isn’t mp3. It’s AAC (or m4a – it’s what the file extension is, I think).
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 7, 2012 3:25 PM EST up reply actions
I’ve had no problems with my Apple products playing with others. You can tell iTunes to rip into mp3 format, but native setting is AAC. My MacBook plays quite well with my Android phone—it (the Mac) is how I get all my ringtones and notification sounds onto it (my phone). Though, to be fair, I also have professional-grade audio-editing programs on my Mac that can create multiple file formats as well. The only format I don’t have that works for my Mac is FLAC format, but that’s just as easily remedied (I’d just have to download Songbird or something similar.
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 7, 2012 3:35 PM EST up reply actions
It’s just never been a huge issue for me. I have enough devices and programs that read every file format I use, that I’ve never really cared too much about converting to one single format or dismissing some device because it won’t accept some other format.
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by What Is Narf? on Feb 7, 2012 3:58 PM EST up reply actions
My daughter just went from a non-iphone to an iphone and she was able to back her contacts and photos up on line and then download.
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Good morning and Happy Tuesday to you, RB. I hope your day is going well.
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What’s the coolest, non-work related thing you’ve done lately?
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I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 7, 2012 11:12 AM EST up reply actions
A couple Saturdays ago, I took a friend to ID12 at the Toronto Metro Convention Centre. It’s the largest Interior Design show in Canada. I don’t have a wide knowledge in the subject but she does, and it was quite fascinating. And it was good to see her enjoy it so much (it was a surprise) as she is going through some rough patches lately.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 7, 2012 11:15 AM EST up reply actions
No problem mate. I know you like him a lot so it came naturally to send it along. I first saw it on my cousin’s wall last night.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 7, 2012 11:16 AM EST up reply actions
iPhone Data Usage
I use the data tracker on my phone (in General>Usage) to track my data for the month. I reset it every month so I can keep track of things. I got a text over the weekend saying I’ve used 65% (140MB) of data, but at that point the usage tracker on the phone said I had used ~90MB (20 sent, 70 received). I still didn’t go over for the billing period but I would have thought that it would be more accurate. I’ll see how it goes this month.
by bathwithtoaster on Feb 7, 2012 11:07 AM EST reply actions
4s. I’m interested to see if this happens again next month
by bathwithtoaster on Feb 7, 2012 11:23 AM EST up reply actions
Ha, got the same thing last week. Definitely switching to Sprint or Verizon at the end of my contract.
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by Bald Pollack on Feb 7, 2012 11:17 AM EST up reply actions
Anyone looking for cheap tickets to the game tonight? I can’t find anyone to go with me so its $40 for both.
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Sorry. Don’t think I would make it on time or I would take you up on it.
by Rather Bengt on Feb 7, 2012 11:17 AM EST up reply actions
Very very tempting..but I really should get HW done…
I like Laich, but I <3 Green
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 7, 2012 11:34 AM EST up reply actions
Haha, I can just see going in the verizon center with my E&M and Space Physics textbooks…when they search my bag “Just planning to do HW during the TV time-outs”.
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 7, 2012 11:47 AM EST up reply actions
I probably owe him soup after I made him sleep on my door step/in my car…hahaha
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 7, 2012 11:54 AM EST up reply actions
To my credit, you should have knocked louder. I was behind two doors and thought you were staying with the other people.
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 7, 2012 12:11 PM EST up reply actions
Shouldn’t that be ‘in my defense’?
I can’t see how you get credit for him not banging on your door like coked out drummer.
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Lets meet in the middle and blame JW. She was “on the ice the whole time” so to speak.
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Dude, I forgot she was there. Holy crap was I drunk that night.
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 7, 2012 12:52 PM EST up reply actions
Help!!
Morning everyone. I need some car help/advice before I call the tow truck.
Driving home late last night from (where else?!) the hockey rink…the battery light goes on in my car, the ABS light, then the seatbelt light, then the brake light, followed by…the windshield wipers going on, the turn signals turning on and finally the lights dimming and going on and off with the car slowing down. I actually made it home and (as I predicted) when I turned off the car and then back on, it was dead. I’m assuming electrical, but I would really like some opinions before I ship the car off to the mechanic or the dealer. Thanks.
Sounds like an Alternator belt or Alternator. It runs when the car is running to charge the battery. When the belt breaks or the Alternator dies, the car runs off the battery.
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So a few months ago I posted a pic of how my roommate tried to burn down the apartment by melting a hole through the pot on the stove. Well last night it was my turn to try to burn it down…I was vacuuming and it just started smoking like crazy…whole apartment was smoky and smelled awful and the vacuum was HOT…took it apart and found a men’s dress sock wrapped around the belt…
I can’t decide if this was my fault or his.
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If you didn’t run over the sock, then it’s his. Get a new roommate before you end up on the evening news.
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I might have run over it..like..it is a super powerful dyson, and I think it might have sucked it from UNDER the couch…I am crazy careful not to actually run over anything. I am not breaking that crazy expensive vacuum (HEPA filter and everything).
So it might be a draw…I didn’t actually run over it, but I was using it..but he left a TON of socks under the couch that I couldn’t see.
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 7, 2012 12:09 PM EST up reply actions
Holy Shit - 15 1/2 pound baby
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That shouldn’t be possible.
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by RockinRed4Life on Feb 7, 2012 12:52 PM EST up reply actions
how can ONE person so throughly ruin and otherwise good office? Solution:
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Sorta related: I watched the new Planet of the Apes movies on Sunday. I was actually impressed quite a bit. Andy Serkis deserves an Oscar nom or it.
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Excellent news in California today: Appeals Court upholds ruling that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.
They ruled it very narrowly, it can potentially get punted to the SCOTUS but I don’t think Roberts will accept it because it’s such a state level thing. Nothing really intermingles at the federal level.
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True, but the reasoning behind it is as such: all orientations are equal under California law EXCEPT marriage, and Prop 8 specifically makes same-sex couples inferior to opposite-sex couples. It’s invoking it, but, they can’t push it up to the court. I’m sure some justices are itching to try it but nothing yet has shown that Roberts wants the court to be involved in a case like this.
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and this:
“Although the Constitution permits communities to enact most laws they believe to be desirable, it requires that there be at least a legitimate reason for the passage of a law that treats different classes of people differently. There was no such reason that Proposition 8 could have been enacted,” the ruling states.
I don’t see the SCOTUS touching that with a 50’ pole
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Oh, I am sure he wants no part of it, but I think the Prop 8 proponents are going to choose the SCOTUS route rather than the full 9th Circuit, figuring their chances are better with the Supremes (which they are).
Also, it’s not only Roberts’ decision. If 4 justices elect to hear the case, it gets heard. I can certainly see 4 of them deciding to hear this one.
Maybe, but that’s a lot. The court is packed with federalists but any interpretation of what the previous court decided will only apply to California. Not much sense in hearing it if they can’t exercise their philosophy.
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And if they refuse to hear it, marriage equality remains law in California. Which is a win in my book. There are multiple issues at play, but whatever advances civil rights is all good, as far as I’m concerned.
At some point soon (i.e. the next few years), there will be a DOMA challenge, as that piece of crap legislation was blatantly unconstitutional from the moment it was drafted (and I believe Clinton knew that, and was intending that it eventually be challenged).
DOMA won’t get touched because it is an important fundraiser. States will continue legalizing marriage equality for the most part but there will be hold-outs.
Money is another good reason why the court won’t touch it: there’s not much money to be made on this case.
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DOMA has to be touched at some point because DOMA affects legally married families in states with gay marriage. Basically, you can be legally married in California, but not be able to file jointly with the IRS as a married couple.
That seems like a clear violation of the 14th Amendment.
DOMA makes money, and money makes things legal.
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I’m not to that level of cynicism yet. I still think that the Supreme Court is mostly free of corruption or money.
At some point, DOMA will have to make its way up the chain of courts because there are people who are definitely being harmed and have standing.
I’m not totally following this argument. You’re saying that because conservatives raise money on DOMA, that somehow conservative politicians will prevent DOMA from ever being heard in federal court?
There are multiple cases in all the federal courts, challenging DOMA on multiple grounds, and DOJ has ceased defending the law on the presumption that it is unconstitutional. I definitely see one of the multiple cases winding up in front of the Supremes, or standing with a lower court ruling of unconstitutionality, as most of the courts who have so far ruled on it have decided.
It’s like Roe v. Wade — that could probably be overturned in a heartbeat because it isn’t the most sound ruling (Casey v. Planned Parenthood is the anchor for choice) however, if it got moved there and one side “won” a new boogeyman would have to be invented for people to divide about. Same reason most of the Democratic party was bummed when Ted Stevens got the boot — he was a major fundraiser for the party because people rallied against him.
It’s why most issues like that, truly divisive stuff, won’t get past the state level. It’s easier to buy a politician in a state than it is in DC so you get people who can be legitimately crazy but easily fund* their re-elections. Eventually appellate courts step in as a relief valve to keep things from getting to the federal level and decided upon. That way politicians can fund their re-elections, the lobbyists can keep their jobs and the media can pull in ad revenue.
*pending on what happens with Citizens United, I suppose
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Not a lawyer, but I like to play one on my computer…
Isn’t a challenge with abortion that it’s hard to get someone with standing to bring a lawsuit?
Not really — Casey v Planned Parenthood was just about Pennsylvania laws. It was a bad decision because Roe v Wade is tenuous at best in its interpretation (at least, in my opinion and a lot of what I have read) of how the right to privacy interacts with choice but Casey v Planned Parenthood had some conservative heavyweights coming to bat for a lot of what Roe v Wade created.
Even finding someone who has gone through with the procedure shouldn’t be difficult. If you read around for stories people have of working at a facility, there are plenty of women who come in to have surgery who still remain ideologically opposed to abortion.
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I had a classmate go through the origin of the right to privacy for a history class. Legal theory makes my head hurt.
I guess it might make sense if I had that amount of bookin’ behind me but whenever I try to read the opinion of the court, it just comes off as saying women have the rights afforded to them because we just said so right here.
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It didn’t really make sense to me at all.
Basically, the Supreme Court had derived together a patchwork of “right to privacy” from the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments and parts of the Constitution, dating back to the 1800’s. My classmate had decided to pursue the origin of the right to privacy because it’s been used in multiple cases including Roe v. Wade.
It was my first glimpse into legal theory, graduate level work in history, and it made my head split.
The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion: When the Anti-Choice Choose. it’s a bit out of date at this point, but an interesting read.
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Perhaps. We see it differently.
I think that, as public opinion continues to swing toward equality (cool aggregation of poll results on the issue over the past several years), and equal rights begin to be denied to people in some states who are legally wed in other states, DOMA will most definitely be challenged.
We’re just shifting who to blame problems on, though. It’s a push toward egalitarianism but it’s glacially show and new victims show up all the time.
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I really don’t understand how what you’re saying is a response to what I’m saying. Perhaps I’m being thick, or you’re talking about something else. “We” who? Who is “blaming”? What “problems” are you talking about?
Public in general — it’s a move towards egalitarianism, but migrant workers, Muslims, transgendered, transsexual and queer are still very much second class citizens. Society always needs someone to be afraid of, especially domestically. What little is gained by marriage equality is offset by using Muslim as a slur or transgenderism the latest sitcom fad.
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They ruled it very narrowly, it can potentially get punted to the SCOTUS but I don’t think Roberts will accept it because it’s such a state level thing. Nothing really intermingles at the federal level.
i think you’re right. The Roberts court had a opportunity to get involved in marriage equality in DC and passed, noting that it did not have the jurisdiction to do so, seeing as this applied only to DC and DC law was quite clear that a human rights issues, which marriage equality and sexual orientation are defined as in DC, cannot be put to a popular vote.
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Which is a win for equality. No, it doesn’t apply to the whole country yet, but that day is definitely coming. In my not-so-humble opinion, of course. :)
I was devastated when Prop 8 passed. I volunteered and canvassed and took such pride in voting no. It was a failure of clarity on the part of the anti-prop 8 advocates, and some really bad internal politics, in my opinion, that allowed that piece of crap to pass in the first place.
What shocked the hell out of me was how much out of state money went into that travesty. Especially from the Mormon church.
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Yeah. Fucking Mormons launched a full-on assault. Good lord, the television advertising they paid for alone, with all the absurd lies about what Prop 8 would mean: teaching homosexuality in schools! Forcing clergy to marry teh homos! Everyone gets a same-sex spouse, whether they want one or not! Soon people will be able to marry their dogs!
No doubt. I’ve read they think it comes down to Justice Kennedy. I need to take a look at his voting record. However, it seems they’re going to allow marriages in California to go forward while awaiting the Supreme appeal.
An interesting element of this is that the guy who is arguing the unconstitutionality is former Solicitor General Ted Olson, who argued and won the Bush v. Gore 2000 election case for Bush (and was rewarded with the Solicitor Generalship for his trouble). Despite his W affiliation, he seems to actually believe in civil rights for all Americans, which I find remarkable.
Both sides from Bush v. Gore are arguing against it. David Boies teamed up with Ted Olson.
In Maryland, some of the sternest opposition to gay marriage is coming from people who normally vote Democratic. /sigh
Yeah, I’m hoping the Maryland marriage-equality advocates do a better job this year in reaching out to the African American religious community in PG County on this issue than they did last year.
People who think MD represents some sort of liberal paradise haven’t looked too deeply beyond party registration. Also, when you have no common enemy, internal divisions appear.
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Hey, we have a plastic bag tax and are thinking about raising the gas tax. BOOYA liberal paradise!
>.> <.<
Montgomery County is pretty darn liberal.
MoCo is, but the rest isn’t. Maryland is so weird in some ways.
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It’s a microcosm for the country — the densely populated areas are more Democratic, and the sparsely populated areas are more Republican, and there are more people in the densely populated areas than in the sparsely populated areas, but there’s more land mass in the sparsely populated areas than in the densely populated areas
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by CapitalCentre on Feb 7, 2012 2:50 PM EST up reply actions
yeah, I remember seeing an electoral map where the vast majority of Maryland was red… Then realized that all the districts that were blue were where all the people lived.
Now, I’m in the same district as Allegany County… This should be fun.
I love it when the folks who make those maps adjust the size of jurisdictions for population so you get a much better sense on how votes are distributed. Doing it only by land size is disingenuous, imo.
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And this is why we have an electoral college…
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by CapitalCentre on Feb 7, 2012 3:03 PM EST up reply actions
what an undemocratic relic. ugh.
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Now, now, it serves a purpose. Tyranny of the majority and all that. I think the whole thing could be fixed if we kept the electoral college but every state’s electors were assigned in proportion with the vote instead of winner-take-all. Two (?) states do it that way now, and I cannot fathom why it’s allowed to be nonuniform or why the other states haven’t all followed suit. But then, I can’t see why elections aren’t held to a certain national standard.
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by CapitalCentre on Feb 7, 2012 3:34 PM EST up reply actions
Well, in that scenario it’s just a popular vote but you remove some trailing zeroes, so it may be imprecise but certainly a step in the right direction.
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It’s fairly progressive — apart from MD-1, the state leans heavily toward liberal causes. A lot of it has to do with how ingrained biosciences and bureaucratic function is in the state, of course. Marriage equality would have happened here years back had the congress not properly insulated it from the Catholic church which is still fairly strong here. The new law is much more church friendly so it’ll move through with only a token amount of dissent. Churches here aren’t as organized as elsewhere apart from the Catholics so it was just about appeasing them.
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We’ll see. The African American churches mobilized last time, but the Governor has thrown his weight behind it, so it’ll be interesting and probably very close.
I do like the MD Governor, simply because of this: http://www.omalleysmarch.com/anfymartin/martinmain.htm
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That’s interesting! What was the case about, if you don’t mind me asking (I totally understand if you don’t wish to discuss it here). Did you go hear the argument?
it was a Truth in Lending Act case.
I absolutely went to the hearing, I lost badly (8-1, only Scalia was on my side) but the reality was I won even though I lost the Supreme Court hearing.
That’s an interesting position to be in. I wasn’t aware that Thomas was ever allowed to dissent from Scalia! I thought his butt-boy agreement was pretty clear on those terms. ;)
it was pretty funny in that the attorney’s were basically arguing over what “sub-paragraph” actual meant
Cartman is real?!
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The headline on PoorlyDressed.com was “Screw you guys, I’m going home!”
I was convulsing with laughter at my desk.
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Well, he seems okay.
That guy who came into my office on Friday and had that breakdown about his friend who killed himself the day before just came by my office again. He seems okay. It’s hard to tell. he’s a very stoic Russian, but it was nice of him to come by. I did kind of wonder how he’d deal over the two days.
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