Things That Are Terrifying
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:20 pm
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Someone I went to high school with is defending Todd Akin. More appalling.L-Town Expatriate wrote:Todd Akin's "expertise" in human anatomy.
In some St. Louis area mansion, John Brunner is kicking himself for not pouring an extra $2 million into his own campaign.
Absolutely appalling. All of it.
Yikes. Todd said he meant to say "forcible" instead of "legitimate". When I heard "legitimate", I thought "justified".Mickey0R0urke wrote:Someone I went to high school with is defending Todd Akin. More appalling.L-Town Expatriate wrote:Todd Akin's "expertise" in human anatomy.
In some St. Louis area mansion, John Brunner is kicking himself for not pouring an extra $2 million into his own campaign.
Absolutely appalling. All of it.
The thread topic is "Things That Are Terrifying", and I concur: a valedictorian failing to use proper grammar in her speech is hella terrifying.Mewto55555 wrote:Irrelevant to the Akin discussion, a valedictorian quoting Twilight in her speech is pretty terrifying (and not knowing the difference between was/were to boot)!
Quoting Twilight is not so much terrifying as really really funny. I imagine she'll be mocked at reunions for years (of course by that point she'll have spent most of her life devoted to writing fanfic based on the characters).Mewto55555 wrote:Irrelevant to the Akin discussion, a valedictorian quoting Twilight in her speech is pretty terrifying (and not knowing the difference between was/were to boot)!
Because it's cheaper. Remember MO basically set fire to $7 million for a meaningless primary in March. A subsequent runoff would be another few million at least.L-Town Expatriate wrote:Mickey0R0urke wrote:L-Town Expatriate wrote: Why the heck (preemptively edited in the event Prague, OK's school board scours this board) do we still have first past the post? If we did what Arkansas and Oklahoma does for its primary system, John Brunner would be sinking another $7 million of his own money into an August 28 runoff.
Runoffs would not apply to presidential primaries (which are still set in February). Both parties have discouraged winner-take-all-delegates in recent contests, so runoffs would defeat that purpose.scphilli wrote:Because it's cheaper. Remember MO basically set fire to $7 million for a meaningless primary in March. A subsequent runoff would be another few million at least.L-Town Expatriate wrote:Mickey0R0urke wrote:L-Town Expatriate wrote: Why the heck (preemptively edited in the event Prague, OK's school board scours this board) do we still have first past the post? If we did what Arkansas and Oklahoma does for its primary system, John Brunner would be sinking another $7 million of his own money into an August 28 runoff.
Dude ANY election day (primary, runoff, whatever) costs money. You think all that stuff is free?L-Town Expatriate wrote:Runoffs would not apply to presidential primaries (which are still set in February). Both parties have discouraged winner-take-all-delegates in recent contests, so runoffs would defeat that purpose.scphilli wrote:Because it's cheaper. Remember MO basically set fire to $7 million for a meaningless primary in March. A subsequent runoff would be another few million at least.L-Town Expatriate wrote:Mickey0R0urke wrote:L-Town Expatriate wrote: Why the heck (preemptively edited in the event Prague, OK's school board scours this board) do we still have first past the post? If we did what Arkansas and Oklahoma does for its primary system, John Brunner would be sinking another $7 million of his own money into an August 28 runoff.
Of course not, but I'd rather have a candidate achieve an actual majority, rather than skirt to the nomination with a paltry 36 percent plurality. Heck, we had six Republicans run for Northern County Commissioner in Barry County (that's only half a rural county), with no other challengers. The winner received 28.6 percent of the vote, while second place earned about 22 percent.scphilli wrote:Dude ANY election day (primary, runoff, whatever) costs money. You think all that stuff is free?L-Town Expatriate wrote:Runoffs would not apply to presidential primaries (which are still set in February). Both parties have discouraged winner-take-all-delegates in recent contests, so runoffs would defeat that purpose.scphilli wrote:Because it's cheaper. Remember MO basically set fire to $7 million for a meaningless primary in March. A subsequent runoff would be another few million at least.L-Town Expatriate wrote:Mickey0R0urke wrote:L-Town Expatriate wrote: Why the heck (preemptively edited in the event Prague, OK's school board scours this board) do we still have first past the post? If we did what Arkansas and Oklahoma does for its primary system, John Brunner would be sinking another $7 million of his own money into an August 28 runoff.
Agreed to the first part. As to the second, but if you didn't how would I live? If living is without Zhang?ZhangC1459 wrote:You know what's terrifying? how fast this thread got derailed into a political discussion.
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