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#umadbro

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So, I've got Rinne G NAS as my stud goalie in this auction draft I do every season...

...and he goes down with this hip infection. Gone for at least a month. So I pick up J.S. Giguere as he's the best goalie available, back-up status notwithstanding.

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Would a 3-Party System Really Be Better?

With all the increasing discontent over the latest issues in D.C. coupled with the Tea Party and Libertarian Republicans getting more air time, it seems as if there's a bit more sentiment towards a 3-party system among citizens. That being said...would it really be better? Would it really change anything beyond adding a Tea Party/Libertarian/Party X cable news network the way Fox = Republicans and MSNBC = Democrats?

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MONEY BABY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzO4zqWQLvY

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Player needed early game good position

gameID=127879 France player banned but game just getting under way and you will be in a good playing position.
Come on in....

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30 Oct 13 UTC
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NMR, CD & Etiquette

Why do people refuse to cancel when there is an NMR in Spring 01 or a CD in 01 (or even 02)? What is the point?

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what does your president do?

freakonomics.com/2013/10/30/what-the-president-does-and-importantly-doesnt-do/
Discuss

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Work at home? I work in an office.

Discuss. I think word should be done at the office. YES, I've seen the TedX movie, it was brilliant, but I still think having a place where you physically meet and greet your colleagues is important and - dinosaur that I am - I think it's where the work should be done if it's in fact office work.

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Cigars

Are there any devoted cigar people out there? I have a work-related question I'd like to pose.

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28 Oct 13 UTC

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Cool wine shit

Talk about wine; there's so much fancy stuff about it that I'm ignorant of and I know that there's some fancy fucks in this building

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NMR in the first move - why not automatic cancel?

People cannot be counted on to cancel it as time and time again has shown... or space to confirm before starting... or boot and auto pause before processing the turn... something please...

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My first full press non-anon in 6mo

Looking over my profile, I realized I've become way too concentrated on anonymous and gunboat games, and haven't played full press classic since at least March. Discuss the relative merits of gunboat and classic, and meanwhile, join my game. http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=128395

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hello friend!

Swag

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Why

Freedom of speech! Freedom of speech! WHAT? YOU DISAGREE? FASCIST SCUM!!!!!!! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TALK!!!!!!!111!!!ONE11!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvYyGTmcP80

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checked out my rating....

so.... i've been playing a bunch of wta games lately, and usually surviving or defeated with a few draws here and there. Now i go check my rating... Position: 9822 / 9823 (top 100%) Really...? am i really the second worst player in the game? I would assume there are a bunch of people who haven't won, and plus i have more draws than defeats. I'm confused

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As October Comes to an End...

Are the ghost ratings updated o_O

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27 Oct 13 UTC

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Fantasy basketball league

With basketball season a few days away, would anyone be interested in a fantasy basketball league?

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29 Oct 13 UTC

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One more needed in a non-live game!

3 minutes!
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=128302

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27 Oct 13 UTC

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Moderator Team Update Round 2

Three members have agreed to participate in a 2 week trial as part of the moderator team, so you'll probably notice a few more checkerboards over the next few days. We'll announce who they are after they are given their status.

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27 Oct 13 UTC

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Merket not happy with the 'Communists'

"Mrs Merkel - an Americophile who was awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011 - is said to be shocked that Washington may have engaged in the sort of spying she had to endure growing up in Communist East Germany."

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Emac (0 )
29 Oct 13 UTC

Putin, I appreciate that you want to argue that gerrymandering gave Republicans control of the House, but the fact that in 47 of the 435 Congressional districts the voters split their tickets between Obama and a Republican house representative.

If gerrymandering was true you wouldn't see Obama carrying Republican electoral districts. Sorry but your are full of shit on this one (as usual).

Since you offer no argument of your own on Republican Obstructionism and just provided links I'll provide links of my own.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/artihttp://www.lee.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/op-eds?ID=27dac90e-11a3-48

1-b970-19c2894530a5cle/347151
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_12/unprecedented_obstruction_and033982.phpY

You don't even know how representatives of the House get elected Putin. There is no national election for the House of Representatives so no, your claim that "Democrats got more than a million votes more than the Republicans in the 2012 House elections" because Americans voted for individual candidates in their own districts in House elections. Your statement says that because Nancy Pelosi received 99% of the vote in her district that a Republican winning 51% of the vote in his district should be affected by Pelosi's landslide completely ignores the ideas of electoral districts dating by the Cleisthenes establishment of Demes in Ancient Athens. I know that I just blew your mind with 2,000 years of historical evidence, but there wasn't much to blow to begin with.

Emac (0 )
29 Oct 13 UTC

Putin says that "Republicans didn't win elections."
Putin's ignorance of 435 elections for representatives in the House where Republicans won the largest majorities in consecutive elections since the Republicans controlled the House in the 1940's prevents him from having any credibility on the issue.
The fact that Americans voted for over 5,500 state legislators and 54% of those are Republican to 45% Democrat shows that Republicans indeed win elections.
The fact that Americans elected 60% Republican governors in 50 statewide elections still further unmasks Putin as inept on American politics.

As a matter of fact the only elections the Democrats won were the 1-man presidency and a majority of the 100 man Senate. Outside of that Republicans dominated elections throughout the nation in the House of Representatives, the governor's races, and the state legislatures.

Sorry Putin, but the United States doesn't have an inept, corrupt government like Russia where a dictator like Putin can single-handedly destroy the lives of 100's of millions of a nation's citizens.

orathaic (1009 )
29 Oct 13 UTC

'Your statement
says that because Nancy Pelosi received 99% of the vote in her district that a Republican winning 51% of the vote in his district should be affected by
Pelosi's landslide completely ignores the ideas of electoral districts dating by
the Cleisthenes establishment of Demes in Ancient Athens.'

That's interesting because in a multi-seat district with proportional representation then our massive landslide vote for one candidate will get them elected and then next (usually) transfer to their running mate. I recall the Irish defence minister getting over twice as many votes as he needed (in a fairly recent election) and earning at least one more seat in his area if not two... This is an awesome system for this very reason - though it is fairly rare i think to get two or three elected based on one politician's popularity, it usually means a third party candidate doesn't weaken the main party candidate. (look up the single-transferable vote system, if you're interested)

Emac (0 )
29 Oct 13 UTC

An alternative narrative.
Rejecting the false premise of obstructionism exposes the real issues that defy compromise.
Immigration-The Democrats want a blanket amnesty reminiscent of the Carter administration's actions. The Republicans want a process of to verify the qualifications for permanent citizenship that does not include amnesty.

The issue neither side will compromise on is amnesty. The Carter administration's previous action raise the stakes because a second instance of amnesty will make it the default policy of the nation, and a rejection of amnesty now dramatically lowers it future use.

Until the amnesty issue gets resolved no meaningful legislation on immigration gets written. It isn't obstructionism on either side that prevents progress, it is instead the critical degree of difference between the two positions and the impact of a resolution on the future that defies compromise.

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"It isn't obstructionism on either side that prevents progress, it is instead the critical degree of difference between the two positions and the impact of a resolution on the future that defies compromise."

This is the case with the vast majority of the issues in Congress today. The obstructionism narrative is a myth pushed by Democrats every bit as unwilling to compromise as their alleged "terrorist" Tea Party counterparts.

Gunfighter06 (224 )
29 Oct 13 UTC

It's also important to note that the Tea Party is not a united front. It's a loose coalition of conservative libertarians, conservatives, right-wing Republicans, right-wing libertarians, remnants of the Old Right, and independent who are sick and tired of liberals and their bullshit.

There are some crazy hypocritical Sarah Palin-types; that's a given. But you can't ignore the more rational elements of the party. For fuck's sake, all they want is some accountability.

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Sen. Graham wants to get to the truth

http://www.usatoday.com/story/onpolitics/2013/10/28/lindsey-graham-benghazi-obama-nominations/3286717/
I've been trying to avoid posting threads lately, but I couldn't resist on this one. Jay Carney accuses Sen. Graham of "playing politics". Unbelievable.

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Reason #1,582,019,281,166...

...that hockey is better than football.

http://nesn.com/2013/10/golden-tate-takes-taunting-to-new-level-waves-at-rams-defenders-for-30-yards-en-route-to-touchdown-gif/

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27 Oct 13 UTC

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World's worst drug?

I'd say that the world's worst drug is desomorphine. What do you guys think? In other words, what is the last mind-altering substance that you would voluntarily take?

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29 Oct 13 UTC

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Is a cancelled game reflected in a player's stats?

Hi - if a number of players have bailed I would vote to cancel the game - are cancelled games one of the attributed recorded in a player's stats history?

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29 Oct 13 UTC

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England anyone? New game

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=128207
Needs 1 (england) New!

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Bob Genghiskhan (1233

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28 Oct 13 UTC

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Anyone up for a chance at a1,029 point gunboat pot?

gameID=128297

147 to enter, 1+ day phases, and, as said before, gunboat. Who wants a piece of me?

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27 Oct 13 UTC

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Samhain/Halloween

I know some of you have expressed an interest in learning more about my beliefs in the past. I thought this article explained the way I see Halloween very well. I hope those who are interested find it helpful.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/26/celts-samhain-primer-halloween/

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Obama Knew Millions Lose Insurance

Nooooooo....say it isn't so....<rolls eyes...> Too late to matter, but at least the media is finally getting it right...sigh...

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/28/21213547-obama-admin-knew-millions-could-not-keep-their-health-insurance?lite

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Auction to kill a Rhino, money to save Rhinos...

m.phys.org/news/2013-10-texas-hunters-auction-black-rhino.html
Discuss

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Brand new game - England

Need an England for a new Game. First turn still available.
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=128207&msgCountryID=0&rand=17527#chatboxanchor

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