House of Cards

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I hope Season 3 makes up for how silly Season 2 was. Doubt it though.

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Why do they only refer to Palestine as the Jordan Valley?

Scandal has the television rights to Palestine, so contractually it can't be said unless they want to pay ABC every time.

I stopped watching Scandal and I have no desire to return.

Then you will never see Palestine on television ever again.

Indeed a cheap price for never again seeing Kerry Washington's dreadfully wooden acting.

huh. That seems like one of the least bad parts of a very obnoxious show.

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Spoilerish discussion below:

So, how the heck does America Works... work, anyway?  Annihilate Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and plunge their funding into a massive government works program to wipe out unemployment?  I get the appeal of the latter, but what the hell kind of appeal does the former have, if there's apparently nothing to replace them?

I think, at least this is how he'd justify it, is the annihilating of those programs are to pay for American Works. It's pretty convoluted and makes little sense.