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No updates unfortunately, but if I get any I will post them here. Welcome to any refugees from the Dope in the meantime.

Any guesses when we'll be able to stop wearing masks?

Well, its come time again that after 5 years we have to go and vote in the next parliament and decide which direction we would like the country to go in. What makes this election interesting is just how close the polls have it. It doesn't look...

They're heading into quarantine. As if this year can get ANY weirder!

A key chairman in the Trump probe. As if this sitch wasn't crazy enough!

Did some Googling, Puerto Rico would get 5 House seats, therefore 7 EV What about Guam and USVI?

Bush 41 gone at 94. Signed the ADA, the civil rights legislation that effected the highest % of the American people.

Let's say that Senator Warren had decided not to seek reelection this year, was there anything stopping Ed Markey from running in that election?

Obviously the USA needs serious gun control. The way I would describe the type of guns I would outlaw is,"Ban any gun you need 2 hands to use." Is there a more rational/coherent way to describe these weapons?

To anyone currently caught under Storm Jonas, hope everyone is ok and managed to batten down the hatches and avoid the worst of it.

I just heard about it. Everyone should eat a bunch of acid and stare at the sun, regardless of time of day or location. That is all. You're welcome.

It was very enlightening. One question I have though: what would he possibly gain from lying?

Let us know you're ok, CIAS.

Trump fired Comey! This is getting nuts!!

Another tragic day with loss of life. Now its time to wait and see why it happened. General mood of the place is to keep carry and carry on. :(

I thought these were civil service jobs? As I typed that, I remember that Christie. Was one before becoming governor, so it seems not.

Nice job America!

Glenn Beck says Obama has made him a better man.“Obama made me a better man.” He regrets calling the President a racist and counts himself a Black Lives Matter supporter. “There are things unique to the African-American experience that I cannot...

Gone at 92, thus proving only the good die young.Chick Publications, publisher of the infamous Chick Tracts, announced that the man who gave them their name, died on Sunday evening, aged 92.In celebration of his passing, I present a parody comic...

Well, here we go. Over the next 24 hrs, the UK will decide whether it wants to stay in or leave from the EU. There has been a lot of nasty campaigning from both sides, not much in the way of facts and figures just lots of rhetoric and...

Gordie Howe gone at 88. Since they come in 3s, who's next?

Muhammed Ali gone at 74.

This is silly. Real non-primary votes will not be cast for 15 months. How can anyone elect someone who is wiling to spend two years running for office? All the being said, what do you think at this point? ------GOP---- I can't vote for Bush....

SC Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead today.

They seem to be the most likely nominee. So which one would do more harm down ticket?

I was fiddling with a political compass quiz. Took it twice, changed bunch of answers. Any educated guesses as to an analogous U.S. politician for these scores: Economic: -1.63/Social: 7.44 Economic: -8.25/Social: -6.62

I was talking with my brother at dinner the other night. Told him I agree with a lot of Bernie's positions, but plan to vote for Hillary on Super Tuesday (I live in MA, BTW) He couldn't understand why (he feels the Bern). Is he electable?

I've been sat here watching the news reports coming in all day and wondering what is going to happen next? It's a very sad day and my thoughts go out to those affected. I guess I thought it just needed saying.

For anyone looking outside their window tonight, there is an extra special lunar event going on. A supermoon combined with a lunar eclipse which hasn't occurred for 30 years and won't occur for several more. With any luck, as in we actually have...

(Hello again) It seems to me we have a choice to make we can have: 1) crippling sanctions on Iran that will cause them to drive forward with their bomb -or- 2) a deal that lift the sanctions but precludes an Iranian bomb. Iran is a nasty...

Jimmy Carter has released a statement saying his liver cancer has spread elsewhere. Although I am not a doctor, this is very bad news indeed. -=Link=- I was in the army when he gave us the biggest pay raise in a generation. My Dad worked at...

Has anyone seen polling with Webb or Chaffee? Just for the sake of completeness?

Let's stipulate that anyone polling below 3% bails after IA and NH. Where does their support go?

Today the Yiddish papers are abuzz that the Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard will be released in November. He will be required to stay in the US for five years, after that everyone presumes he will "return" to Israel. I have long been opposed to...

If they used Iowa and New Hampshire polling, as opposed to national polling, would the top 10 change any?

This SCOTUS term showed that he is already looking at his legacy. To me, he wants to be Warren, not Taney.

A true legend has pass away at the age of 93. :(

Its gone baby crazy over here, wall-to-wall news coverage waiting for a special baby to be born. No, not baby Jesus MK II, but the likely to be ruler of Great Britain (in whatever form it is in in 50 years or so). The updates on it are getting a...

Ahoj, scallywags! I tried to watch a Daily Show video with Stewart talking about Michael Richards and Herman Cain - then starts talking about envelopes with white powder... The site doesn't allow the video to be viewed here (we have stupid...

Greetings. Not exactly sure if this is the correct forum for this thread, but at least it isn't a 100000 word screed on every life experience I've ever had, with some drunken belligerence thrown in. So forgive me if I erred. Anyway, I'm looking...

At a dig in the grounds of a Leicester car park, it is likely they have found the remains of Richard III, once King of England. A set of bones have been discovered in the remains of a church and sent away for further DNA testing. His resting...

It's amazing what you can find in old books these days. While looking through an old medical manuscript describing the method of getting rid of a stye, researchers decided to see what happened if they tried it out. Well, it appears that when you...

The world just lost one of its finest. :( Long may the discworld live in the dreams of its readers.

Too many women are coming forward at this point, Bill Cosby is very likely a dirty rapist. God damn that's disheartening.

Now I thought members of the emergency services would spend their time backing each other up purely from the jobs they do and the dangers they face. So, I'm saddened by the following story where it seems that the San Diego police and Firefighters...

I'm sure the advertising agency caught on the meme and though it would be great idea for an ad campaign: "So good you would wet yourself with excitement" and so it came to pass. I'm not rich enough to buy clothes from there, but somehow I...

Now you can probably buy BtVS kits or Van Helsing kits, but does anyone fancy an original 19th Century Vampire Kit. Containing everything you could possibly need to fend off and track the the evil blighters, and containing several religious...

The Rosetta space probe was launched in 2004 with the aim of ten years later managing to land on a comet and take samples as it orbited around the sun. In those ten years, it has made several orbits of the Earth to pick up speed before being flung...

Simple just got simpler. I do hope this isn't a hoax but this is a great idea, a carton that perfectly boils an egg for you without water in a cardboard sleeve. If this ever came to market, I would probably go for it. I love boiled eggs,...

Facebook has rolled out its latest innovation to take over the world and changed everyone's email address to be @facebook.com They didn't tell anyone, they just rolled it out as a feature for everyone. The idea is that it provides a little bit of...