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The Thread For 8/14/14: How Ferguson's Racial Disaster Is The Real "Leading From Behind"

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Screenshot from MSNBC In modern day neoconservative and centrist talk, the phrase constantly used for their perspective of President Obama's foreign policy is "leading from behind." Anyone with any barring of facts, common sense and general rationality knows how unhinged the usage of that phrase is. It speaks more to how unstable those people are and how that phrase surely needs a proper example to represent it accurately. That example has arrived in emphatic and unfortunate fashion with the latest American racial horror show in Ferguson, Missouri, thanks to its mayor exhibiting traits that would make Waldo look visible and a police chief whose behavior gives Clancy Wiggum of The Simpsons a sense of competence. Mayor James Knowles hopefully isn't harboring any ideas on running for higher positions in the future, as he has acted like he doesn't know where his town is located on the map since the early aftermath of Michael Brown joining a list of murdered ...

The Thread For 8/6/14: Missouri Votes To Ban Warrantless Seizures of Electrical Devices

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Missouri voters resoundingly ensured Tuesday evening that they would not be subjected to warrantless seizures and searches of their electronic devices by their state authorities, based on a primary ballot amendment inspired by the actions of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.  Seventy-five percent of  voters  (almost 729,000 people) in the Show Me State chose “Yes” to add Amendment 9  to Missouri’s Constitution, with only 25% casting for the other way. Amendment 9’s passing, which would ensure cell phones, laptops, tablets, and other electronic devices receive the same Fourth Amendment protections granted to people, their homes, and their other personal belongings, had gain steady bipartisan momentum in the state for months. Although the amendment  does not affect the federal level, it does place a block on Missouri state departments from obtaining digital data without a warrant.   The amendment was sponsored by State Senator Rob Schaaf...

TWD Saturday Sports Thread #2 For 12/7/13: Auburn Wins The SEC in the Conference Greatest Year Ever

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Final: Auburn 59, Missouri 42 A wonderful season concludes with a wonderful end for the Auburn Tigers, in the best season of SEC football ever, what a season it has been. — Andrew Jerell Jones (@sluggahjells) December 8, 2013 Halftime: Auburn 28, Missouri 27  Representing how wild this SEC has been this year, a first half that had Auburn dominate on the ground through Tre Mason, only to give up three fumbles by Nick Marshall and keep Missouri firmly in this great battle of the Tigers.  But the play that will have Guz Malzahn further wondering how his team hasn't put this game away is the deep pass from James Franklin to Dorial Green-Beckham at the end of the half (up above) that resulted in the Black and Gold being down by just one at the break.  SEC Title Game Pregame Thread  The list of great winners of this SEC Championship:   I favor Auburn's miracle to continue, but this could go either way with how great these teams ar...

Sports Thread #1 for 10/18/08: Big 12, SEC, And The Rest Of CFB Preview

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(Photos from google.com) Colt Mccoy and Chase Daniel are apart of a great group of quarterbacks from the state of Texas taking over college football, and certainly, the Big 12 Conference It's another great Saturday today here not only on TWD, but in the world of CFB (College Football). Already, on another Thursday, we come into Saturday action with an upset occurring. BYU, who seriously had an outside chance to possibly get into the national title picture , blew it at TCU, as the 'Frogs ended their nation leading 16- game winning streak and chances of stunningly season ending glory. With BYU out of the picture, that opens the door for their bitter rivals, Utah, to reclaim their sovereignty over the Mountain West conference and return to the BCS for the first time since the days of Alex Smith and Urban Meyer. But our attention on TWD, with no disrespect to the other conferences, and to the great year so far from Penn State (who looks to give Joe Paterno another chance at a Natio...