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I love it when Arizona gives me yet ANOTHER reason not to visit the relatives in Phoenix. Fucking GOP "christians". Or perhaps kkkristians is more accurate? Not seeing a lot of "Christ" in their behavior.
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are there any petitions to move next year's Super Bowl away from Arizona if the idiot governor signs the pro-discrimination bill?
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Breaking news from the KABC newsroom in LA...Monster Storm to hit on Wednesday!

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?sectio…

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Scheisse! I never would have guessed it was the Süddeutsche Zeitung, which is usually a fine paper, a benison.
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I really am not all that impressed with corporations asking the governor of Arizona not to sign the bill because it will affect business in Arizona. How about don't sign the bill because it discriminates against people and discrimination is not only illegal, it's morally reprehensible!!!! JFC.
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"Console Wars is the underdog tale of how Kalinske miraculously turned an industry punchline into a market leader... It’s the story of how a humble family man... inspired a team of underdogs to slay a giant"

Nintendo won that war though
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@5 The answer, sadly, is that we the public are more interested if it hypothetically affects some business than if it's unfair, undemocratic, or "morally reprehensible", whatever that is. Commerce is our religion. As we know, only naive, weak people worry about idealistic concepts like how something will affect society, now or in the long run. The stone-hearted people who are truly wise to the ways of the world know that "the business of America is business". Hence, more people (or at least politicians) will listen if you say that it will "affect business" than if you say that it will affect the gays.
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Okay since morally reprehensible doesn't compute, how about this - plain and simple and written in the Constitution (you know that document people who champion murder weapon rights have such a hard on for).

The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause, which took effect in 1868, provides that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
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Portraying someone or some organization as an octopus covering the world is a common cartoon ploy. However, portraying that someone with stereotypically Jewish features is just weird in 2014, and in Germany yet, which is about the most stringently non-anti-Semitic country in the world. The irony is that Zuckerberg looks like cherub-faced Irishman.
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@8 I like that. We can all agree that the Constitution is civically sacred. None of this liberal-activist stuff about "civil rights". Problem is, only a few us know the *correct* interpretation of the Constitution, and the courts don't always get it right. Judges are human, after all.

Look, maybe I'm being too cynical. Most people aren't corporate zombies because they have the ability to relate to others, including gay coworkers and television characters. Businesses are only saying the gay Jim Crow laws would be bad for them because the paying public, by large, doesn't want engage in them. But the objections are still taken more seriously, at least politically, when businesses say that it will cost them money.
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@10, as far as the "courts don't always get it right", yes, judges are human, but the Supreme Court is the body appointed to decide on constitutional questions. That's the end of the line, whether you or I think they're right or wrong. The only humans who can contravene them are other duly-constituted Supremes, at some later date.
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I'm not usually too big on those seemingly pointless novelty videos like that one. But that was pretty entertaining. I just happened to catch, down toward the lower left hand corner at around 50 seconds or so, "heeeeere's Johnny!", the old 5280 avatar. Good times.
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@11 I'm being sarcastic! You know how people always say that judges are being activists when they don't rule the way they want?
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Bless you for remembering the Jaguar, Paul.

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