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And that PAC can spend $5 million on Newt Gingrich's campaign. So you're circumventing the law. Legally.

The point is that Sheldon Adelson can donate the $5 million himself; he doesn't need to have his company Las Vegas Sands do it. So you or I could do the same thing, if we had $5 million to donate.

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Also, I don't mind so the campaign finance stuff so much because it's really hard to influence elections with money. Mitt Romney spent a fortune of his own money last time, to very little effect.

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From what I understand, you as an individual can donate an unlimited amount to a Super PAC, but not to a candidate's campaign directly. So Sheldon Adelson can donate $5 million to Newt Gingrich's PAC.

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Obama - 17
Romney - 9

Romney was leading earlier, but Obama has dominated the later votes.

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And my vote is for Romney over Obama despite that.

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They won't work on lowering the debt, no matter which party wins (unless Ron Paul wins and starts vetoing basic necessities unless Congress agrees to his demands). But it will be harder for a divided government to create new expenses that increase the debt faster.

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Considering this is the US Congress we're talking about, "any laws" and "ruinous laws" are just about the same thing!

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You want the President and Congress to be of the same party? Interesting, I actually want the President and at least one house of Congress to be of opposite parties. That way, they can't pass any ruinous laws.

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You can make them if you like.....

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Let's see how this would go on Board 8 now that Romney is the clear frontrunner for the GOP nomination.

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Maybe if Romney flops in SC and Santorum/Gingrich/Perry split votes. But Romney isn't going to flop hard enough for that to happen.

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I'm guessing Vin doesn't get her uberpowers when she is half of God?

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No votes in from Hanover yet on CNN.

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Samus is a bounty hunter like Mitt Romney is a corporate raider. They've moved on to bigger things now.

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As far as gaming goes, just stay away from Caesars owned properties.

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lol Sarah Palin. Now we're a center left state. Also, lol Perry with 1%.

Huntsman is bold to say that our future is not in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Oh boy, I can already imagine the media if it's Obama vs. Paul. Fox News will actually be the most unbiased network.

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Also, it's a shame Mitt Romney had to have been Massachusetts governor instead of a state outside New England, because then Ron Paul would have won this outright tonight.

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Good job, home state. Best 3 candidates took the top 3, and those ridiculous joke candidates the media has been hyping got completely marginalized.

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They can never win a Super Bowl under your standards.

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Ron Paul - 14
Mitt Romney - 5

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Vote away!

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John Kerry dominated the minority vote too. But you can't win the election by winning the minority, you have to win the majority. Which is why elections are decided by what percentage of the majority group each side gets.

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Yup, Obama 2008 >>> McCain 2008 = Romney 2012 > Obama 2012

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It's more like, we should allow people to defend their property from a thief.

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Ben Bernanke does!

Joking aside, of course they do. When Nintendo creates a game like Ocarina of Time, they are creating value out of thin air. When you write a book, you are creating value out of thin air.

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Maybe in fact, people don't want to spend money on any of those things. Maybe they just want to take it from you. Because they're greedy and selfish and they want you to suffer. Mwahahaha.

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My reason for opposing the bullying laws is that they punish victims who stand up for themselves with the same brush as for the bullies. Being convicted under one of these laws will do far more harm to you than a bully could possibly do in 99% of cases, and you risk running afoul of them unless you are the picture of meekness and subservience. Which just eggs the bullying on. Further, if victims know that these very harsh laws exist against bullying, they are less likely to try to report it, because they do not wish that fate on the bully. It's like in 18th century England, if you caught a thief stealing some minor items from you, you probably don't report him because you know that if he's found guilty, the penalty is death.

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2002-2004 - The golden age
2005-Now - The Nintendo Boost

I like this.

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Uh, felony murder is treated like murder for sentencing. It's a truly ridiculous doctrine in my opinion. The whole point of having different degrees of murder is to differentiate based on intent, but felony murder requires no intent, no mens rea at all towards the death, so it does away with the degrees.

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In the interest of fun, I'll take it against all of them except Melee.

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The Romney campaign probably doesn't care. Iowa is much more about getting the attention of voters in later states and establishing yourself as a frontrunner than actually winning delegates.

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I have wondered the same thing. Most the people I ask do seem to not realize there is a difference (these people are pretty much idiots in this matter) or they simply don't trust that someone who is gay will not have gay sex. Though as you rightly pointed out the second one makes no sense for Catholics who already expect church leaders to be celibate. And again there is the worry that having a gay pastor will somehow promote or be seen as giving approval to the action, which seems wrong to me.

It is indeed tragic that people don't know the difference. I think many people believe being gay is a choice itself, which would explain it.

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1. The New Testament does not overrule the Old Testament. It clarifies it, and adds to it, but does not overrule it. There are parts of the OT that are not applicable to us not because they were overruled by the NT but because they were never meant to apply to us, here in 2012.

2. The NT also says homosexual acts are sinful.

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This case will do more to stop bullying than all the misguided anti-bullying laws legislatures have passed in recent years.

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This is the way to stop bullying.

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, so being evil is alright as long as you're not a supervillain.

No, the correct remedy here is lawsuit. Plus the losses that they've already taken from hiring less qualified people than they otherwise could have. Wal-Mart management doesn't think those losses are as big as their gains from their actions, of course.

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Again, compare it with racism. Are you okay with a Christian private school denying a black student, based solely on his race?

There are schools around that forbid interracial dating. I'm okay with a racist private school existing; I certainly wouldn't send my kids there, and it's not going to hurt me or anyone else who doesn't choose to enroll there.

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Because they are not doing anything unethical enough to counterbalance all the traits that make them a successful company. If they started taking every 10th employee hired and locking him in a cage in Siberia, I suspect very few people would still apply to work there. If they did something somewhat less evil like refusing to send out paychecks whenever the CEO doesn't feel like it, people would also likely stop working there. What they've done thus far clearly isn't evil enough to deter lots of people from working there.

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It's like Wal-Mart. Despite it's abysmal track record on human rights, it's still hugely popular and not slowing down.

If Wal-Mart had a track record of abusing the human rights of customers, it would quickly lose its popularity among shoppers. If Wal-Mart had a track record of abusing the rights of shareholders, its stock price would drop. If WMT had a track record of abusing the rights of employees, less people would choose to work there or they would demand higher wages. The third one is probably true, WMT isn't very high on people's list of companies they want to work for.

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Did you really just compare membership to the KKK to an adoption agency? What the hell is wrong with you?

What if the KKK wanted to facilitate adoptions between its members? Could it do so legally? That is a pretty relevant question, I think. We all agree on this board that the KKK is bigoted, but does/should that matter legally?

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Not really. For as big an event as adopting a child, I'm sure you can travel more than 100 miles. Or 200. Or 300. This isn't the 1800s.

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All the candidates except for Romney and Paul may as well not show up here in NH.

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