Aaron Strife
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I'm such a Southern boy at heart. I hate the weather here, but yeah, Minnesota is a beautiful state. I'd be happy to live in the Twin Cities for a long time.
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PoliGAF 2013 |OT3| 1,000 Years of Darkness and Nuclear Fallout
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PhoenixDark
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I got it to work in Chrome, whereas the Firefox one doesn't work; when you try to log in the site goes blank.
ClassyPenguin
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California is the bestest state.
She's from Ukraine and vows to never live in a cold state/country ever again!
speculawyer
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Not only cheap, but some of the best. Home of the Mayo clinic. Home of Medtronic. And my sister is a cardiac ward nurse.
Yeah I'd been using Firefox since day 1 and couldn't get past creating the account. Tried IE this week and had no issues breezing through my parents application..
Armoured Priest
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Weird. I set up an account just to see (and there is a possibility I may need to use it in a month or two, so saving myself time now). Had no issues making an account using Firefox.
I could make an account with Firefox as well. Just couldn't complete the application process
theprodigy
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we're going to go 1984 style and pretend that those prices used to be lower, therefore Obamacare is bad! /GOP
NYCmetsfan
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Screw the cold. I don't know how people live there.
eBay Huckster
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We wear coats.
NYCmetsfan
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how many?
eBay Huckster
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One, usually (probably two in 'Sota, though). We aren't Canada.
speculawyer
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Meh. You get over it. The people are nice. It is a cheap place to live.
But . . . yeah, I can't go back. If anything, I'd probably move even farther south. San Diego would seem nice.
Oh don't be such a pussy. A nice down coat is all you need. The darkness is worse than the cold.
On a related note, what happened to multi-state exchanges? The law allowed for states to band together, but we got 50 different exchanges. I totally expected CA, OR, and WA to coordinate, and the small New England states to band together. I haven't read any news on that front, either.
NYCmetsfan
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Like Dean Norris, under the dome.
Thankfully thats going to be blown up soon. Can't say im in favor of taxpayer funded stadiums, but getting rid of that ugly motherfucker might be worth it
Yeah, it's quite snit, isn't it?
The new one looks pretty sweet too, hopefully you don't name it something stupid.
Anyway, joking aside, I actually quite like the twin cities, yeah, the weather sucks but there are good times to be had there.
speculawyer
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As someone that saw the Vikings (and the Twins) play at the Met Stadium, it is weird to see the Metrodome already being retired. Tax-payer funded stadiums are a huge scam and no one should put up with that shit.
Aaron Strife
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Was it multi-state or a provision for small-businesses to band together?
They do give your city +4 happiness though.
Dude, we're talking about the Vikings here, they give you +20 crush spirit.
So, like, Landrieu and Hagan will win. Pryor probably will. What's their plan then to defund Obamacare?
I'm legitimately confused on where their path is to win the Senate if conservatives keep pushing to shutdown the government or push us to a fiscal brink. I just don't understand how they can see one helping the other.
I'm legitimately confused on where their path is to win the Senate if conservatives keep pushing to shutdown the government or push us to a fiscal brink. I just don't understand how they can see one helping the other.
speculawyer
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I'm an ex-Minnesotan, but the rest of my family is still there. I consider it my home state.
speculawyer
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4 Super-Bowls, 0 Wins. Even the fucking Buffalo Bills broke that curse.
The Bills did what now?
Its even more hilarious when you remember that the NFL is labeled as a non-profit organization by the IRS (blame congress) so it doesnt pay taxes.
What?
PhoenixDark
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I thought Pryor was a sure-fire goner until Tom Cotton voted for the debt ceiling/govt shutdown bill.
The league is, the team themselves are for profit,expect those commies Packers, who has the best ownership model in all of American sports (which is of course banned from the NFL now).
The whole way football is structured in the US is messed up and probably wouldn't stand in an open and unbiased court, but no one who want to get elected would dream of taking football from Americans.
theprodigy
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Kay Hagan's still doomed right
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thepotatoman
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That sucks. I'm actually ok with lumping sports stadiums into the same group of public services that zoos, theaters, and museums hold. I'm not ok with all this dumb publicizing of costs and privatizing the profits.
As a huge sports fan I'm more than okay with it, and I think the best model of providing it is public ownership, Green Bay Packers style. It's better for the fans and it's better for the team as it does wonders to fan engagement.
Also, it will once and for all be done with that abomination which is franchise relocation, that shit is beyond bullshit.
Aaron Strife
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If even just Landrieu and Hagan win of the red-state Democrats, Biden's the tiebreaker. Unless the GOP started cutting into blue states, but where would they start? Iowa and Michigan, where Dems got their best recruits and the GOP has no one? Minnesota? (lol)
I totally agree. How Green Bay does it makes so much sense.
NYCmetsfan
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They can start a new company and actually create some jobs instead of mooch off of government subsidies
I love the weather here in MN from mid-September to early May. Summers here fucking suck though.
Same here. There's been a lot of good stuff happening lately but that Vikings stadium pisses me off so much. What a scam.
Well, one positive is that it actually is bringing in development
http://www.ryancompanies.com/projects/east-village/
That definitely wouldnt have happened if we didnt do this. Sure, it sucks that we got stiffed with the stadium bill, but Minneapolis sure is going to look better thanks to the stadium and that development. Course, anything is an improvement than the metrodome and a bunch of parking lots
You also have less asshole suits like Richardson in charge.
Black Republican
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So wait, the governor of a state doesnt have to sign a bill to pass gay marriage in his/her state? the court can do it themselves?
im confused. Non american here
im confused. Non american here
Yep. If the courts rule that not allowing gay marriage goes against an amendment to the Constitution they can force it to be legal. It's all part of checks and balances.
Yes they can.
You see, even though that power is nowhere in the constitution (of new jersey or the US) in 1803 the supreme court decided it's going to start doing it, and everyone just went along because lawyers are the most beloved and qualified people to be the final arbiters in our society.
Because deciding between contradicting laws based on supremacy is scary and wrong.
TacticalFox88
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Oh, Facebook, you continue to amuse me.
I have no problem with the "review" part of judicial review, it's the "judicial" that bothers me.
That's fine, but your remark how it's not in the constitution sounds a lot like anti-tax people who claim the income tax is not in the constitution. I just wonder what the Supreme Court is supposed to do otherwise when the constitution makes it clear on certain matters what Congress cannot do and which laws trump others.
It could certainly be handled differently, but the constitution makes no provisions for that.
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