[W and NPD didn't make this (entirely harmless) mistake.]

I'm not sure why the Pirates are on your list. Most likely wikipedia is wrong.

Having researched the matter... it seems like they didn't have to declare intent but did anyways (possibly not knowing they didn't have to. FW and NPD didn't make this (entirely harmless) mistake.

FW are on that list twice though, with 2 different names. Or are these other "Freie Wähler" parties ?

The one on the top is a different one*. The other is the real one, but I overlooked it.

*The FW expelled its entire (tiny) Brandenburg state party, and later its entire (tiny) Bremen state party, because they were dominated by nazis and quasi-nazis, and set up new ones. FWD is the expelled Brandenburg state party, gone nominally national (actually it is active only in Brandenburg, Berlin and Bremen.)

“[…] why is it so hard to believe that they could feel pain?”

Nobody claims otherwise, dodo.

The entire scientific establishment claims otherwise - as in, a later onset than these people have made a matter of belief.
The strange thing is that they're arguing about the part of pregnancy (the middle part) where no one in their right mind and with any kind of choice about it will have an abortion anyways. Nobody in their right mind has ever claimed that a third-month embryo could possibly feel pain (parts of the American pro-life movement aren't in their right mind, of course, but that's neither here nor there). While everybody knows - even if some people may not want to think about it - that an eightth month unborn baby can.

Already has.

Oh, you meant in terms of the electoral math. Probably not. Or not much.

Another "anti-corruption crusader" bites the dust as he turns out to be a corrupt crook. Good riddance.

It's hilarious how often that turns out to be the case, isn't it? One of the classics is still Swansea in the 1970s, of course: corruption scandals saw an entrenched Labour administration lose power in 1977 to a group of heroic anti-corruption independents. It soon emerged that many of these heroic anti-corruption independents were the same local businessmen who had been bribing members of the previous administration...

L. M. A. O.

I'm not sure why the Pirates are on your list. Most likely wikipedia is wrong.

Having researched the matter... it seems like they didn't have to declare intent but did anyways (possibly not knowing they didn't have to. FW and NPD didn't make this (entirely harmless) mistake.

Vaguely Nixonian.

And that one doesn't actually run federally either.

But yes, there is (or recently was) one.

Yeah. Reread Moby Dick. Now.

Reading through Edgar Hilsenrath's lesser works atm, interrupted by a short book on the Bikini and Eniwetok Islanders' plight and cultural reactions to it.

How many signatures are needed in Germany to be on the ballot federally and in the states ?

200 (from the district) for a direct candidate, 2000 or in the small states 0.1% of the total electorate for every state list. At least you can sign as many petitions as you want to. Parties represented federally or at the state level (actually it's a little more complex: you need to have won five seats, as a result of the actual election result, federally or in at least one state at the last election) are excempt from the requirement to 'announce their attention' to stand and to submit signatures according to wikipedia, so I'm not sure why the Pirates are on your list. Most likely wikipedia is wrong. Also, parties 'representing a national minority' (however representing is defined here) don't need signatures.

And I just read I can't legally sign anybody else's petitions now - only one state list and one direct candidate per voter (but they don't need to be of the same party). Mind you, it's unlikely I would have gotten the chance.

Tahiti score! Wow!

Partytime!

How did you and Claire McCaskill come to be at the same wedding? In Michigan, no less.

Her husband, the new husband's great-uncle, was the officiant.  I know the bride from undergrad.

Go for it... even senators are people too

At the very least, she's on the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, so we could talk NSF

As long as your talk doesn't become NSFW.

Vice magazine, (in)famous for not giving a damn about the tastefulness or otherwise of its content, has today pulled from its website a fashion shoot based on suicides of female writers. Each picture was captioned with what the model was wearing in addition to the birth and death dates of the referenced author.

The pictures have, of course, remained on the Internet because that is the nature of such things, so does the collective mind of the Forum find these pictures in bad taste or no?

The idea of an entire such shoot yes, very much; the pictures themselves no.

Somehow it is difficult to imagine them doing the same for male writers...

Oh, I'm sure Hunter Thompson would approve of the idea.

Homely vs Lewis

I accept the challenge.

It was more likely intended as a pun; Braves -> Braves, Red Sox -> Redskins

Nevertheless it's pretty clearly offensive nowadays and should probably be changed.

I'm not an expert on Native American history, but was it not racist back then? What if the Patriots changed their name to the New England N*****killers back in 1913?

It would be more like the New England Negroes (also, the Boston Patriots would not be founded for years to come).  It was a word that didn't have especially negative connotations back then, the most offensive would probably have been "Injun."  It's similar to Asians in that all the words used to describe them then would be considered offensive today ("Yellows," "Mongolians," "Chinamen...").

If you were actually talking about "braves" rather than "redskins", you would be making sense here.

Since you seem pretty dedicated, I'll change it to Florence. Thank you for telling me.

Don't take my word for it, but I just can't see how Romney won Owensboro.

Believe me, I did the actual precinct math. It was very close - though not quite as ultra-close as Obama's win in the only minimally larger Bowling Green - but Romney won Owensboro. Obama won the older, northern half of it, of course, and easily.

Precinct boundaries in Kentucky don't always follow city boundaries

Yes. Having done the math and looked at the map, I am well aware. -_-

Looks like Rouhani did bad in Sunni and Kurd areas. I guess they didn't want to vote for a Shia cleric.

Maybe. But why Sunni areas voted for Rezaee rather than, for example, Ghalibaf? Can anyone explain?

Hes from Khuzestan province

His mother tongue is Arabic.

"Ieuan"

Needs to be misprinted "Ieuao".

I have signed the petition of one of these groups that I will most certainly not actually vote for.

I still think he owes all vampires an apology.

1. New York City
Obama 65.42
Romney 34.58

2. Los Angeles
Obama 65.03
Romney 34.97

3. Chicago
Obama 64.73
Romney 35.27

6. Philadelphia
Obama  64.68
Romney 35.32

Hilariously similar numbers.

Since you seem pretty dedicated, I'll change it to Florence. Thank you for telling me.

Don't take my word for it, but I just can't see how Romney won Owensboro.

Believe me, I did the actual precinct math. It was very close - though not quite as ultra-close as Obama's win in the only minimally larger Bowling Green - but Romney won Owensboro. Obama won the older, northern half of it, of course, and easily.

I, too, am an American Football fan, Lewis. 

Hence why I'm expecting so little of you.

(but I hope you meant an American football fan.)

And (the day before, actually) the first member of the 1974 squad is also dead.
RIP Heinz Flohe. He was 65. He had, however, been in a vegetative state for the last three years.

Harry asked if there was  "some kind of awesome reason" for the color choice. That means he thought the answer might be no, in which case he found it entirely possible that it was picked randomly.

You would, if you could not conceive what the reason might possibly be.

Eh. He's an American Football fan. We should not hold such sad individuals to a high standard.