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Ted Cruz

7 (6.5%)

Rick Santorum

16 (14.8%)

Michelle Bachmann

13 (12%)

Chris Christie

23 (21.3%)

Rand Paul

49 (45.4%)

Total Members Voted: 107

[RedKing]

Because Somali don't speak the language that "-stan" comes from?

It'd be like asking why we don't call German, "Germanistan".

Though in modern English parlance, "-stan" also carries a connotation of a small, failed Third World country. One of my favorites being Ethniklashistan. Or Kansastan.

[Descan]

Would China be Hanistan?

[Helgoland]

Frankenstan.

[Mictlantecuhtli]

Because Somali don't speak the language that "-stan" comes from?

It'd be like asking why we don't call German, "Germanistan".

Though in modern English parlance, "-stan" also carries a connotation of a small, failed Third World country. One of my favorites being Ethniklashistan. Or Kansastan.

Former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, now presiding over a Serb settlement near the Jordanian border, was optimistic about the future. "All Muslim scum must die," he said. "Death to all enemies of Serbian purity!"

All right, this made me laugh way harder than it shoud've. I just felt that Slobo would work his way into the article from the title.

[kaenneth]

CNN headline: "Bush honors veterans, hopes Jeb runs"

He likes veterans so much, he wants more of them =P

[SalmonGod]

Politics

[SealyStar]

Politics

I like how they make him a Bush-Obama hybrid (Obama's family, Bush's reading at elementary school on 9/11, etc.) to avoid getting criticism from that angle that he's mocking a specific president.

[GlyphGryph]

http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/05/10/texas-advocates-fight-prison-rape

Texas has decided to act against new federal rules to prevent the rape of children in prison, with this whopper of a quote (directed to the parent of a kid who was raped): "This happens every day; learn to deal with it. It’s no big deal."

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Rodney was only 16, a waif of a boy at 5'2" and 125 pounds, when he was convicted of setting a trash can on fire in Brazoria County, Texas, that caused $500 worth of damage. The judge decided to make an example of him, and he was sentenced to eight years in an adult prison.

Any judge who acts like this should be permanently disbarred and imprisoned. That's borderline treason against the people.

[Frumple]

http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/05/10/texas-advocates-fight-prison-rape

Texas has decided to act against new federal rules to prevent the rape of children in prison, with this whopper of a quote (directed to the parent of a kid who was raped): "This happens every day; learn to deal with it. It’s no big deal."

To the extent there's anything fair to be said on this issue, the one that said that wasn't the one deciding not to implement the noted federal rules. It was a warden back in early '00s that said that to the mother of a 16 year old who was later raped to the point of committing suicide. The one speaking against the federal rules is the current governor, Rick Perry.

Mind you, Perry is blatantly lying out of his goddamn ass in the process of doing so, but I guess it's worth making the distinction. And hey, I guess Texas's bottom line is more important to him than honesty* or trying to keep minors in the prison system from being raped, sometimes to death. Something to remember.

*E: Well, to be fair, it could be that he's just incompetent, has the memory of a syphilitic goldfish, and is too stupid to hire people to keep him from saying things that directly contravene his predecessors. I guess that's better than lying to the people and the justice system.

[Helgoland]

Eight years for setting fire to a trash can? I'd rather have lynch justice. Texas confirmed for dystopian hellhole.

[kaijyuu]

The whole thing is rather horrifying.

Personally, I feel that if the whole prison rape thing is being adequately addressed then things like age segregation wouldn't be necessary. Might work as a bandaid for select circumstances, but if someone has the capacity to do that to a minor they have the capacity to do it to someone else.

Of course, nevermind that the way we do prisons is a bad idea from start to finish anyway.... Ugh. The only way I see fixing this problem among others is to tear the whole prison system down and build anew, focusing on crime prevention and with punishment being incidental.

[Helgoland]

Copying Norway, maybe?

[kaijyuu]

That'd be pretty neat.

[Sirus]

Of course, nevermind that the way we do prisons is a bad idea from start to finish anyway.... Ugh. The only way I see fixing this problem among others is to tear the whole prison system down and build anew, focusing on crime prevention and with punishment being incidental.

Would that be before or after clean, reliable fusion power is implemented nationwide?