Personal WTF. Found my stash of Hot Wheels in the storage closet. I have 1 box in my closet I'll throw a new find into, but I had forgotten how old these boxes were. I have Hot Wheels that are old enough to join the military
Personal WTF. Found my stash of Hot Wheels in the storage closet. I have 1 box in my closet I'll throw a new find into, but I had forgotten how old these boxes were. I have Hot Wheels that are old enough to join the military
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Just how unpopular is President Barack Obama in some parts of the country? Enough that a man in prison in Texas got 4 out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary.
The inmate, Keith Judd, is serving time at the Beaumont Federal Correctional Institution in Texas for making threats at the University of New Mexico in 1999. Obama received 59 percent of the vote to Judd's 41 percent.
I'm sure turnout was abysmally low, Wraith. Why would anyone vote in an uncontested presidential primary?
Hopefully. Found it odd nonetheless!
Not sure about the turnout rates, but Judd secured 72,461 votes.Originally Posted by wiggin
What baffles me most is how does a convicted person, who has no legal rights to vote, get themselves allowed on a ballot in a primary for the highest elected office when the state's party officials are even uncertain if he's completed all of the formal paperwork?
Ah, good ol' American elections.
Population of WV: 1.8 million. Percentage of population who voted for Judd: roughly 4%.Not sure about the turnout rates, but Judd secured 72,461 votes.
Number of registered Democrats: 640,000. Add the fact that half the people almost never vote, and we're talking about nearly a quarter of likely voters in a normal election.
Hope is the denial of reality
It was a fucking primary in West Virginia.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...iny-libraries/
They coulda just hired a consultant for the price of one of those routers
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
First off, WV has a semi-open primary which allows unaffiliated voters to choose (and you can change party affiliation the day of the primary). Secondly, it's obvious you'll get kooks coming out of the woodwork for this kind of thing. If Judd has more than 10% support among actual likely Democratic voters, I'll eat my hat.
I bet most people voting for him were actually just voting against obama and did not even know who Judd is.
West Virginia actually has hundreds of thousands of "Democrats" who haven't voted Democrat in several decades. There is rarely as much cross-over in semi-open primaries as wiggin assumes, especially in non-consequential races.
Hope is the denial of reality
http://stuffdutchpeoplelike.com/2011...heid-gezellig/
Dutchies, explain yourselves.
Hope is the denial of reality
What's to explain?Oh and browsing that site: i do not have yellow or red pants!
Or so you say.
Hope is the denial of reality
I do say that gezellig is indeed untranslatable!
Another untranslatable term is the Finnish "suomalainen sisu".
Sisu on sisukas!
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Finally noticed that one, huh? Took your sweet time about it!
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
If we disregard the large groups in which unemployment is a major problem we see that unemployment isn't a major problem
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
WALKER, MI – Sabrena Hall and more than 60 other Kenowa Hills High School seniors are upset that a bike ride to school this morning got them suspended on the last day of school, and banned from the traditional senior walk.
Students say more than 100 classmates participated in a 3-mile bike ride to school that included escorts by a Walker Police cruiser and the mayor. It was supposed to be a fun twist on the types of things that typically happen on senior prank day.
But Principal Katie Pennington was not consulted and not happy about the organized event, suspending 64 of the students for the day. There are about 300 students in Kenowa's senior class.
“She was very upset,” said Hall, 17. “We did not consider this a prank at all, but an opportunity to celebrate our last day at school. We were singing the school fight song (while biking).”
But the principal was not pleased.
“I am glad they made it here safely. It was a safety risk,” said Pennington, who said the bikers caused a major traffic problem and disrupted the school day.
Students traveled from the Walker Fitness and Ice Center, 4151 Remembrance Road NW to the high school, at 3825 Hendershot Ave. NW.
There were reports that teachers and others were late in their commute because of the mass bike ride, and that traffic at one point was backed up more than a mile.
Students said they did call police beforehand to arrange an escort.
Walker Public Safety Director Catherine Garcia-Lindstrom said she was informed that the supervisor on duty was contacted this morning about providing an escort. She said she found out about the escort after the ride.
“There’s not a sidewalk on that entire stretch, so it made prudent sense,” said Garcia-Lindstrom of the escort. “We really didn’t have a lot of notice. I am certainly glad we had one vehicle available.”
Garcia-Lindstrom said there is not another way to get to the school except for riding along Four Mile, so riders would compete with buses. She said the department has a good working relationship with the school.
Pennington said students who were suspended will be allowed to attend commencement. She said she will be discussing with teachers how to address those who missed exams.
Hall and others said in the past there’s been vandalism or other poor behavior on Senior Day.
Several parents gathered at the school, frustrated by the decision to send students home.
Sue Rusch, a parent of participating student, said Pennington overreacted.
“If it was a malicious act, I would support some type of punishment, but this was an organized, safe event,” Rusch said. “I applaud the students.”
Rachel Nicks said she is "100 percent" behind her son, Cody, who is on the National Honor Society and has a 4.33 GPA. She said she was surprised by the principal's hasty decision regarding an "organized, healthy, green activity."
"I have no regrets," said Cody, 17, who like other students says it was not a prank but a celebration.
http://mobile.mlive.com/advgrapids/d...l=true#display
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Obviously they ought to have run i by the principal and staff so there could have been better organization; but, I don't understand why she would suspend the kids for something so...tame. If it was truly a problem the safety department would not have sent an escort. And they didn't bother calling the principal either.
Not to mention that it was the last day of school. Do they honestly try to tell us that there's anything serious of a time-critical nature going on?
I know that our last few days before the summer holidays always consist of fun experiments, movies and games.
Hell, in my last year we had a "Panem et Circenses" prank (it was a Latin School, obviously) which effectively voided anything the teachers had planned for that day
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local...olCtg.facebook
video of the principal going off on the students
According this person, who claims to attend the school, the lady sounds like she was power tripping, and there is a lot of local anger.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
A local school administrator on a power trip? Impossible.
Hope is the denial of reality
http://news.yahoo.com/video/houston1...-29458964.html You can get a jail sentence for missing school?
Hope is the denial of reality
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
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BBC News mistakes Halo for the UN.
Master Chief would sort out Syria.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
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