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[Leafsnail]

You'd want to keep track of biological sex for medical reasons.

[kaijyuu]

Keeping it with the census data would be useful for quite a few things, I imagine. Any sort of gender related statistics need to know totals/ratios/etc.

[Sheb]

Yeah, but if you're going to track whatever sex the person decide they are, that has no medical interest.

[ChairmanPoo]

There might be conditions with statistical association to such data. It's not inherently a bad idea.

[Sheb]

RedKing, you really need to go to your state capital and whack 'em on the head good.

[RedKing]

RedKing, you really need to go to your state capital and whack 'em on the head good.

I'm not sure which is worse though....our crazy-ass, inbred legislature or the knee-jerk responses attached to that article along the lines of "Haha, stupid crazy-ass, inbred Southerners". 

[Sheb]

Well, the majority of your co-Carolinian (is that even the right way to call them?) did vote for those inbred, crazy-ass politician.

But then you should know better than read internet comment, even if those on thinkprogress a relatively calm.

[Jervill]

College's bank deals saddles students with big fees.

As if students like myself didn't have enough to worry about; and yes, my university has a deal with TCF bank as well.  I declined because I currently bank with a credit union instead; but not everybody has that option.

As for that proposed law in North Carolina...*facepalm.*  Oh well, guess the coastal communities will just have to fall into the sea then.

[RedKing]

Well, the majority of your co-Carolinian (is that even the right way to call them?) did vote for those inbred, crazy-ass politician.

But then you should know better than read internet comment, even if those on thinkprogress a relatively calm.

Well, no...a plurality voted for a number of Tea Party-backed Republicans who insisted all day long that they were interested in one thing: fiscal conservatism. They said they weren't going to Raleigh to thump Bibles or legislate morality or fight the culture war.

They waited maybe a month before throwing that promise out the window and doing shit like requiring a pregnant woman to watch an ultrasound of her fetus before getting an abortion, constitutionally banning any kind of same-sex union ever, and now the latest craze (and I use that term literally) is attempting to thwart any kind of sustainability planning on the basis that it's all a UN conspiracy and "liberal" panic.

My hope is that enough North Carolinians will be disgusted at the bait-and-switch that the GOP will lose control of the state house come November. But if they don't...and we're likely to wind up with a Republican governor....*shudder* Might seriously be time to look at relocation.

@Jervill: Oh, no, no. See a lot of the properties on the Outer Banks are owned by rich people. When the sea begins to swallow up Ocracoke or Hatteras, you can damn well bet they'll be pushing the government to dump millions of tons of sand on the islands to keep them around, at taxpayer expense, so their beach house will be safe. Now the actual communities (i.e. the poor people living in the swamps), they're fucked. As usual.

[Delta Foxtrot]

College's bank deals saddles students with big fees.

As if students like myself didn't have enough to worry about; and yes, my university has a deal with TCF bank as well.  I declined because I currently bank with a credit union instead; but not everybody has that option.

As for that proposed law in North Carolina...*facepalm.*  Oh well, guess the coastal communities will just have to fall into the sea then.

I'm sure there will be some GOP related privately owned new housing in preparation for the flood of new residents in inland NC.

And boy am I glad I'm not a student in the US currently. Seems like you just get fertilizers piled on top of you as the months go by.

[Truean]

College's bank deals saddles students with big fees.

As if students like myself didn't have enough to worry about; and yes, my university has a deal with TCF bank as well.  I declined because I currently bank with a credit union instead; but not everybody has that option.

As for that proposed law in North Carolina...*facepalm.*  Oh well, guess the coastal communities will just have to fall into the sea then.

I'm sure there will be some GOP related privately owned new housing in preparation for the flood of new residents in inland NC.

And boy am I glad I'm not a student in the US currently. Seems like you just get fertilizers piled on top of you as the months go by.

Yup, and the student loan rate just doubled today, June 1st because the Congress did absolutely nothing about it. From 3.4% to 6.8%.... This was in the news a few weeks ago, but frankly, then it just dropped off the radar.... I think it was because Congress had no intention of doing anything about it/the gridlock was too much. Students are basically screwed in the U.S, as it seems, are people who recently graduated. Then of course there's the people the schools blatantly lied to http://finance.yahoo.com/news/this-bright-eyed-young-man-was-utterly-demolished-by-student-loans.html . This is somehow allowed, accepted, and encouraged with some interest rates of 17%.... Nevermind that that student loan debt collectors have legal powers that would make the mob jealous.

Quite frankly, if this would've happened to mortgage rates, people would be up and arms. But, you know, since it's "just" student loan debt, fuck those kids....

Quite frankly, between prisons, roads, schools, and everything else, I'm getting rather sick of this "privatization" thing. It's about time for a wave of renationalization, at least of the prisons, and probably for more things.

[Frumple]

RedKing, you really need to go to your state capital and whack 'em on the head good.

I'm getting an absolutely hilarious mental image of the future, where NC has followed that law and all the surrounding states have built a two or so meter wall along the border. Folks sitting on top of the wall fishing where there used to be a state, now an oversized bay.

Anyone voting yes on that thing should be legally required to live in an NC costal town for the remainder of their lives

Quite frankly, between prisons, roads, schools, and everything else, I'm getting rather sick of this "privatization" thing. It's about time for a wave of renationalization, at least of the prisons, and probably for more things.

Here bloody here.

'course, it won't happen because people would rather the roads and schools break down and our incarceration rate go even higher instead of pay more taxes, never mind it'd probably save them money to jack the rate a bit and provide better infrastructure and so on. Bleh.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm getting an absolutely hilarious mental image of the future, where NC has followed that law and all the surrounding states have built a two or so meter wall along the border. Folks sitting on top of the wall fishing where there used to be a state, now an oversized bay.

Actually, even if all the ice on Earth melted, more than half of NC would still be above water. And my city would be beachfront property. 

Anyone voting yes on that thing should be legally required to live in an NC costal town for the remainder of their lives

That is not even remotely a punishment. It would take a few decades of ice melt at the least to actually make that a punishment.

[Nadaka]

meh. I bought a house with an elevation of 29 feet. I almost want the AGW deniers to be right.

[Fenrir]

I almost want the AGW deniers to be right.

I think everyone does.