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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
March 25 2016 14:17 GMT
#69121
On March 25 2016 22:58 farvacola wrote:
Cruz fans have little to no problem with homophobia

“He just has an unpopular opinion and people shouldn’t be punished for that. PC culture wants to make having opinions illegal.” – Cruz Supporter on the topic of treating gays as less than human.
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ticklishmusic
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States15977 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-03-25 14:24:29
March 25 2016 14:24 GMT
#69122
Just tossing out what is possibly the first nice story about Ted Cruz I've ever read. I guess the point is to remind us that everyone is human, even Ted Cruz, although he comes off as a lizard man a lot of the time.

MEDIA, Pa. — In 1997, Ted Cruz was a young lawyer on the climb when a pressing family matter pulled him to a seedy motel outside Philadelphia.

His half sister Miriam Cruz was living there, spiraling deeper into drug addiction. She was neglecting her young son. And Mr. Cruz was determined to steer her back on track.

With a “really studious schoolboy look,” Mr. Cruz walked up the steps of the motel, his appearance notable at a place where rooms rented by the hour and unsavory characters lurked behind drawn curtains, said Michael Gunning, Ms. Cruz’s boyfriend at the time.

But after a long lunch with Mr. Cruz and their father, Rafael Cruz, Ms. Cruz was unmoved, Mr. Gunning said. Within months, she and Mr. Gunning were arrested at the motel for fighting with several men during a drug deal. In their room, a police report noted, officers found two crack pipes.

With his sharp intellect and steely resolve, Ted Cruz has propelled himself through one accomplishment after another: Princeton, Harvard Law, a Supreme Court clerkship, the United States Senate, and now a strong contender for the Republican presidential nomination.

But as his life was taking off, his half sister’s was going in the opposite direction, a snowballing misery of bad choices, bad luck and, most of all, a losing battle with drugs.


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Mohdoo
Profile Joined August 2007
United States15679 Posts
March 25 2016 15:10 GMT
#69123
This is why Bernie is winning Washington by 95%

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KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42636 Posts
March 25 2016 15:12 GMT
#69124
The final solution!
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
LegalLord
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
United Kingdom13775 Posts
March 25 2016 15:23 GMT
#69125
On March 26 2016 00:12 KwarK wrote:
The final solution!

Building a giant field of photon cannons?
History will sooner or later sweep the European Union away without mercy.
oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
March 25 2016 16:51 GMT
#69126
We have fed the heart on fantasies, the heart's grown brutal from the fare, more substance in our enmities than in our love
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
March 25 2016 17:08 GMT
#69127
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has signed a bill that makes his state the second to ban abortion because of a fetal abnormality. The measure also criminalizes the procedure when motivated solely because of factors such as the fetus' sex or race.

Pence called it a "comprehensive pro-life measure that affirms the value of all human life" in a statement.

But as Indiana Public Broadcasting's Brandon Smith tells our Newscast unit, even some anti-abortion lawmakers thought the legislation was a step too far:

"Several state lawmakers. including Republicans who've authored anti-abortion legislation in the past, argued vehemently against it. They said the measure, which bans abortions performed because of a fetus' characteristics, demeans women and lacks compassion.

"One lawmaker said it signals a return to the time of backroom abortions. Doctors urged the governor to veto the bill, warning that patients could feel pressure to lie to their doctors."


Supporters of the bill say it "protects people with disabilities from discrimination — saving the lives, for instance, of those with Down syndrome," as Brandon reports.

"We are pleased that our state values life no matter an individual's potential disability, gender or race," Mike Fichter, the head of Indiana Right to Life, said in a statement.

The head of Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky condemned the bill. "It is clear the governor is more comfortable practicing medicine without a license than behaving a responsible lawyer, as he picks and chooses which constitutional rights are appropriate," Betty Cockrum said in a statement, according to The Associated Press.


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"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
wei2coolman
Profile Joined November 2010
United States60033 Posts
March 25 2016 17:18 GMT
#69128
On March 26 2016 01:51 oneofthem wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLJMA3HFrss&feature=youtu.be

Holy shit, that was savage as hell.
liftlift > tsm
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-03-25 17:23:32
March 25 2016 17:23 GMT
#69129
Yeah and the CNN anchor really didn't help dispel it to become a non story.
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
IgnE
Profile Joined November 2010
United States7681 Posts
March 25 2016 17:49 GMT
#69130
I really love this Cruz story.
The unrealistic sound of these propositions is indicative, not of their utopian character, but of the strength of the forces which prevent their realization.
Mohdoo
Profile Joined August 2007
United States15679 Posts
March 25 2016 17:57 GMT
#69131
This is my favorite thing about this election. Did we see this coming 48 hours ago? Did we have a fucking CLUE this would be the hot shit topic? What a wild ride. I never want it to end.
killa_robot
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada1884 Posts
March 25 2016 17:59 GMT
#69132
That kind of response actually makes me think it's true, lol.
oBlade
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States5578 Posts
March 25 2016 18:08 GMT
#69133
On March 25 2016 22:40 Liquid`Drone wrote:
Seems likely to me that Trump's previous attack on Heidi was aimed towards making Cruz make some 'I'm a family man' statement which now seems extremely hypocritical, basically making him dig his own hole.

If the US were a normal country on this subject, nobody would actually care who someone sleeps with. But it's not like that, so this could be Cruz ending up the next target of Trump's surgical destruction.
"I read it. You know how to read, you ignorant fuck?" - Andy Dufresne
Seuss
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States10536 Posts
March 25 2016 18:10 GMT
#69134
On March 26 2016 03:08 oBlade wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 25 2016 22:40 Liquid`Drone wrote:
Seems likely to me that Trump's previous attack on Heidi was aimed towards making Cruz make some 'I'm a family man' statement which now seems extremely hypocritical, basically making him dig his own hole.

If the US were a normal country on this subject, nobody would actually care who someone sleeps with. But it's not like that, so this could be Cruz ending up the next target of Trump's surgical destruction.


Part of it is that the religious right is an extreme purity culture, so this sort of thing is a really big deal to them.

Given a few years and they'll accept it as part of your "coming to Jesus" testimony, but in the here and now it's second only to apostasy.
"I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me." -Moses (Numbers 11:14)
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
March 25 2016 18:11 GMT
#69135
Except this didn't come from Trump but a Tabloid. The same one that reported on the John Edwards story.
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
PassiveAce
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States18076 Posts
March 25 2016 18:13 GMT
#69136
It comes from National Enquirer?

I'm not inclined to believe it until a institution with some integrity corroborates it
Call me Marge Simpson cuz I love you homie
oBlade
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States5578 Posts
March 25 2016 18:18 GMT
#69137
On March 26 2016 03:10 Seuss wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 26 2016 03:08 oBlade wrote:
On March 25 2016 22:40 Liquid`Drone wrote:
Seems likely to me that Trump's previous attack on Heidi was aimed towards making Cruz make some 'I'm a family man' statement which now seems extremely hypocritical, basically making him dig his own hole.

If the US were a normal country on this subject, nobody would actually care who someone sleeps with. But it's not like that, so this could be Cruz ending up the next target of Trump's surgical destruction.


Part of it is that the religious right is an extreme purity culture, so this sort of thing is a really big deal to them.

Given a few years and they'll accept it as part of your "coming to Jesus" testimony, but in the here and now it's second only to apostasy.

Wouldn't coming to Jesus be breaking a commandment also?

On March 26 2016 03:11 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Except this didn't come from Trump but a Tabloid. The same one that reported on the John Edwards story.

Trump did just say he had beans to spill. It's not impossible to imagine a connection. I don't know how it's going to develop.
"I read it. You know how to read, you ignorant fuck?" - Andy Dufresne
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
March 25 2016 18:19 GMT
#69138
Whatever the case CNN anchor just gave it credence with her denial and the word lawyer.
"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
Gorsameth
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands21664 Posts
March 25 2016 18:19 GMT
#69139
On March 26 2016 03:08 oBlade wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 25 2016 22:40 Liquid`Drone wrote:
Seems likely to me that Trump's previous attack on Heidi was aimed towards making Cruz make some 'I'm a family man' statement which now seems extremely hypocritical, basically making him dig his own hole.

If the US were a normal country on this subject, nobody would actually care who someone sleeps with. But it's not like that, so this could be Cruz ending up the next target of Trump's surgical destruction.

This would be just as much news in Europe. Especially if the person had a significant amount of religious voters.
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-03-25 18:23:14
March 25 2016 18:19 GMT
#69140
apparently the conservative alt media sphere had rumblings of this story a week or so ago. i don't know if you want to wade through this one, be warned.

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