Most of these decisions were coming for a long time and would have happened no matter what, I'm willing to be some of them got delayed to avoid accusations of trying to sway the election, also when you look at every single source article they mention the changes being due to changes in demand for products or overproduction, corporate restructuring or some other factor.

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Found one that didn't. Murray Energy Co. directly blames the election of Obama on the layoffs.

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Oh, and if that's not enough news for me, then I go watch the Onion News Network.

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Yeah. He still has to do his research. He doesn't have a show if he doesn't.

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You meant to say: He does have a great show if he neglects to check any facts and just makes up some random shit to scare people with.



That's right Glenn. Ignore those silly people with all the boring data down at the white house and just ride along the Fox News fake report train. Choo-choo.

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Is that last part about Fox really that necessary?

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I mean come on. We can have an intelligent, adult conversation without the need to blast news networks. Its not like the ones you watch are any better then Fox or Glenn Beck.

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They are.

Because.

Here's the amazing thing.

I don't really watch any.


And no, that statement is where it needs to be, I've seen all the bullshit peddled by both Fox and MSNBC both ways, and how many times they got caught on it. That's right. Fox gets caught on outright lies and misinformation all the damn time. Especially compared to the rest of the news. There is no station that is "fair and balanced" out there, every one makes mistakes, some even have the decency to admit to those and amend them the following day. You take all news with a pinch of salt, because the way the market works, pandering to the ignorant breaking-news-searching consumer, forces you to do so. But if a news station doesn't even admit its shortcomings, then I have no reason to take it seriously at all. Which is why I don't do that with most news stations.

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I'm not arguing its short comings. I'm saying you need to be a bit more respectful towards people. Try being nice.

Yes, all of them get it wrong once and a while, and they are all biased. However, I believe their problem with accuracy is that everyone wants to be the first to report the big news.

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I called Beck factually incoherent doom-sayer. Which I actually consider to be pretty spot on. If you think that's me not being nice then, well, all I can say is sometimes the truth just isn't nice to people.

And yes, it's the "big scoop" effect that leads them to report hastily and inaccurately. But that was only half of my point. I do realise why that is the case, and to be honest I can still accept this way of doing things. But the main point is, the complete disregard for "coming clean" on mistakes and misinformation. It's a news station, and it is meant to report information. If the information reported turns out to not be accurate, then pointing that out and correcting the information is in my honest opinion a lot more important for an honest news station than getting on with the next big story. There is a frightening level of letting people say all the most ridiculous bullshit and getting away with it. But it is the news organisations that are supposed to call the politicians out on their bullshit and point out their mistakes. Have you listened to the bullshit from both sides during the elections? How much of it has gotten picked up by the news? This is why Romney could relax at the end and just let it rip and say whatever he wanted, because there was hardly anybody checking it. And Obama did the same in the end. It was actually painful to watch.

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I would take any information from a site owned by someone with an obvious bias towards either side of the political spectrum with a grain of salt. "Facts" aren't the problem here, it's how they're presented.

Ah, now I have 2 Internets. 2 Hard earned Internets. If we keep having gambling parlors around here I could be as rich as Soul one of these days.

On the note of one of the side bets; the one where someone wagered if Romney would be in the next South Park or not I think should be open to debate.

It was always sort of implied that the shit spewing duck is Romney. The duck was in the new episode.

On the note of Entertainment based news: I watch every episode of Colbert and Daily show. I can barely stand any "real" news that isn't the weather anymore. So many fuckers trying to talk over each other all the time tends to make my ears bleed.

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By the way, has anyone been paying attention to Florida over the last week or so? Why's it taking so long to reach a decision? Maybe because of the massive voter fraud?

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Huh. Turns out there's also allegations of voter fraud in my home state of Pennsylvania. In fact, it seems that many of the Battleground states are in similar situations.

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Anyway, Florida finally called it, which takes care of another outstanding bet.

Also, any thoughts on whether the shit-spewing duck from the South Park episode should count as an appearance by Romney?

Can you tell me how many individual two-page cards were submitted?

But is that really official if they're set to do a recount on the 14th? Were the results of the Bush/Gore election in Florida in 2000 considered official before the recounts?

I dunno, it could be taken as an allegory for Obama. See? I can do it too.

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RD, that was dumb and you should feel dumb.

And why does Florida even need to recount? Obama wins either way. :|

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You do realize that the elections were about more than just Obama and Romney, right?

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Yes. I was particularly worried for Proposition 30 in California.

But as many times as I need to say this, Romney and Obama are both incredibly conservative. I voted for the one who is literally one point closer to me than the other. Stop whining and accept the fact that the US isn't really going to change at all in policies or criteria from Obama to Romney.

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I can't exactly be happy about that. And no, Obama is not incredibly conservative. No Conservative would ever agree that's true, even if you rattled off every single one of Obama's policies one after another. He's in favor of gun control, higher taxes for the wealthy and larger government, among other things. He is decidedly Left-leaning.

I think what it comes down to is a definition of Conservatism. We seem to be using different definitions. It's not really a string of policies as it is a mindset. Perhaps you should read up on what it means to be a Conservative, since I'm not sure it's really all that clear to you.

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WHEN HAS HE EVER INDICATED THAT HE WANTS FEDERAL GUN CONTROL?!? I swear to God, half of conservatives tell me Obama wants to take away their guns when he's given literally NO indication, thought or action on the subject of gun control.

He leans left by a point. A fuckin point. Rightwings need to realize how much they've skewed our political spectrum and how damned conservative we are.

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Man, DC, you are really in the dark about the gun control issue.

He opposed legislation in 2004 protecting gun owners who protect themselves with guns in their own homes; he supported a handgun ban in 2007; he extended favors to Eric Holder---a man who famously said that we need to "brainwash" people into thinking that guns are bad; he's been lying and trying to shift blame regarding the Fast And Furious scandal; and he supports the UN's Arms Trade Treaty, which would basically allow the UN to dictate the kind of guns we're allowed to buy and sell.

Sure, Obama doesn't have very many open attacks against the Second Amendment to his name, but there's a reason for it. If you were trying to restrict gun ownership in a society where guns are prized possessions, would you be blatant about it or would you try to somehow slip it past people? Would you appeal to people who owned guns or would you try to shape public opinion through people who have never owned a gun?

It's political Chess. And if we aren't careful, he's going to win.

Go ahead and ridicule me. Call my ideas crazy. Say it won't happen. But what will you say to me if and when it does happen?

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Check out the Summary Report. There were 123,301 votes in the presidential election out of 175,554 registered voters. There were 123,750 votes on the amendments (though there are somewhat fewer for the last amendments - perhaps some people didn't fill out both sides). Since the presidential ballots counted are more like 70% of registered voters instead of 140%, do you concede that your linked article is much ado about nothing?

The presidential results are now in with a completed count (a difference of more than .5% avoids a mandatory recount, and Romney isn't contesting). There won't be a recount for the presidential election, so that's it. The recount (if we're thinking of the same one) is for Representative West, whose race is rather close and who does not want to concede without a recount.

Actually, it was indeed a surrogate for Obama in an earlier episode, while it first appeared in a different episode as a character in a movie trailer. It seems to represent different things in different situations, so birdofterror has some justification in his objection to my call on the bet of whether or not the South Park episode would feature Romney. I'm wondering if others agree or not, because if there's strong agreement that the duck represented Romney, I'll count the duck as a Romney appearance.

It seems you haven't read this post of mine. There's a whole big section on right/left and conservative/lberal there, which includes this British assessment that Obama would be a Tory (a member of the UK Conservative Party). To the actual liberals in the world, most of Obama's policies as implemented are indeed very conservative. For example, Obama didn't even propose single-payer health insurance as a negotiating position, while Obamacare as implemented is a huge expansion of private insurance.

And that's a terrible definition (not that it actually defines what Conservatism is). Conservatives don't want to pay for things they already bought (i.e. raise the debt ceiling or taxes), and they reject the notion of compromise out of hand? "...the core principles of a small government and fiscal responsibility..."? Without an actual explanation of the invoked ideology, there's nothing to distinguish "Conservatism" from Anarchism, Marxism, or even the Democratic party platform. I think that DaCrum was using something more like the dictionary definition: "1. disposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions, etc., or to restore traditional ones, and to limit change." Please read that big post of mine. it really is terribly relevant.

He's said a few times, mostly in his career as a Senator, that he would like the assault weapons ban reinstated. He just didn't campaign on it outside of a single line in the last debate. If past performance is any indication, he will do nothing at all on gun control.

@RD: He's been President for almost four years now. If he really wanted to restrict gun rights, why wouldn't he do it in his first term rather than waiting for and gambling on the availability of a second term?