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No, they weren't. They were right-leaning Democrats. But, because they were Democrats, conservatives declined to vote for them, and because they were terrible Democrats, the left declined to vote for them and they were gone almost as quickly as they arrived.

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Absolutely none of those things were even kinda true, except "were" and "right-" but you put the wrong word on the end.

Enjoy your complicity in your kids' and grandkids' lives in a Third World country. I have better things to do than engage someone who's completely ok with that; TRUMP's got that covered.

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Ho-Kay, bye bye.

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I usually have zero interest in comic book stuff. I was super into it at age 10 and indifferent by age 11. But I like this Jessica Jones series. The superhero stuff is really downplayed. It comes out regularly but briefly and is never presented as an over the top spectacle. The main character's story as a person struggling with PTSD is given much more priority and screen time than demonstrations of her status as someone possessing an extraordinary ability. And it's one, just one, superhuman ability that she has and it isn't always relevant in many of the situations she gets into. She's a completely vulnerable, mortal and normal person in all other respects.

As for those fantastical elements, they are frequently presented in such unspectacular and limited ways that you readily accept the premise that such phenomena, though quite rare, actually do occur in real life.

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Hillary Clinton unveiled a five-year, $275 billion plan today to rebuild and modernize the nation’s infrastructure, which she says will be a “down payment on our future.”OK if anyone needs me, I'll be in my bunk.

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Have you written to all the administrators and teachers and told this this is what sealed your atheism?

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I'm not actually an atheist, I just totally disagree with the structural pro-life movement and with the way certain segments of the Catholic church choose to interact with US politics. Catholicism tends a big-tent religion, though, despite those who demagogue otherwise (it's the only organized religion where the members are roughly dead on with US political opinion averages :P). My former school did a nice job of making me more aware of certain more Pharisaical tendencies of the Church and made me think pretty hard about where I disagreed and why, which was probably not the point of that particular school :P.

The current school president was my junior year English teacher and my Journalism teacher both my junior and senior years. She was not unaware of my opinions on some of the more controversial stances of the Church.

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Investing in infrastructure won't create jobs, but giving tax cuts to massive international corporations will! That's Economics 101.

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Unfortunately Darwin's keeps getting hamstrung because of gawd loving drunks and fools....

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Yeah. In fact look at all the jobs that are created when infrastructure fails. First responders, medical community, disaster recovery, construction. Much more work than just creating "work" for a few people for a couple of years.

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Also too I enjoyed "Jessica Jones" quite a bit. Admittedly I am a huge nerd but I can see it being a show even people who hate the current superhero craze can get into if they're not completely turned off by genres with fantastical elements.

Plus, as someone in a thing I read pointed out, it's one of the rare shows out there where women are *gasp* shown enjoying sex.

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So tired of unnecessarily complicated "public-private banks" and whatnot. Buy the concrete. Hire the contractors. Get it done.

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They don't agree either. They just hate women. You can't argue with people who don't want to know themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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If she is smart, Hillary will be DNC Chair for Bernie's Presidency.

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A former champion ice dancer with 2 children? Damn, there goes another perfectly good stereotype!

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As part of her infrastructure plan, Clinton also called for Congress to pass the long-time highway bill by the end of the year, and said that she wants Internet in 100 percent of households by 2020.Is that part of the NSFW highway-tingly excitement -- "me infrastructure you long-time"?

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