A more fitting name with that picture would have been…
ExcreMints
It occurred to me that I might like to try some of those mints, but I imagine I’d only be disappointed, like I am with the weakness of this thread.
I see your Congressman, and raise you a loon. Congressman Trent Franks, (R-AZ)
(Yes, they have just as much crazy in Arizona as they have in Texas, but its a dry crazy.)
In response to a question about whether the Federal courts might get mixed up in a Balanced Budget Amendment problem, the Hon. Mr. Franks (who’s Mom named Trent so he’s got issues…) responded with a rambling flirtation with coherence, ending with this money quote.
Full transcript available at Daily Kos, a somewhat leftish intertube site…
Just in case you want to be sure I’m not making shit up. Which I might. But I’m not.
Well, if Mississippi would get a bookstore we might consider it.
See? That’s how you make fun of Mississippi.
But seriously, who gets offended by candy? Lighten up Joe.
They’ll probably be able to continue telling us how moderately good-tasting they are.
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I tried some. They were initially refreshing, but quickly turned bland and unremarkable and left a lingering bad taste in my mouth. In too many ways, too reminiscent of the shitty brand I sought to replace. I quickly regretted my purchase and doubt seriously I’ll be buying them again.
Apparently MAGELLAN does not have the ability to feel silly. Another stupid thread about how all the Dems are evil because he found a nutty one. Good work again.
Yeah, but the OP identified Armstrong as a Congressman; he’s an Assemblyman.
Why is this even in the pit? I don’t see that anyone did anything wrong - the state rep., responding to a complaint from a constituent, had a discussion with the director of the bookstore (as an aside, I’d like to see more politicians acting on behalf of their constituents so directly).
It didn’t sound like any demands were made, just that the rep. felt that a publicly funded university shouldn’t be selling a product with a partisan, potentially offensive message, and the bookstore director agreed to pull the product. The end.
You don’t think bookstores should be allowed to sell things with “partisan messages”?
It’s a campus bookstore. I didn’t spend a lot of time in mine, but IIRC it didn’t sell anything other than textbooks, hornbooks and a metric buttload of things with the school logo on them.
A “hornbook”? Is that what the kids are calling it, these days?
In a Borders, or a Powells? Sure, be as partisan as you want - if I’m offended then I just won’t shop there.
But in a state-run university bookstore? Their customer base is somewhat “captive”, in that they have no other option if they want to buy course material.
So yeah, any non-curriculum related product with a partisan message could be seen as receiving a government endorsement, and I agree with the decision of the rep. to follow up on his constituent’s complaint, and with the decision if the bookstore director in pulling the product.
Phfft! I prefer more the more sacred version myself.
In which centur[y|ies] did you attend school, exactly?
I never knew that hornbook was an uncommon concept. So that this thread has at least given me that. Which is nice.
I’d never heard of hornbooks until I was in law school, FWIW.
Why should taxpayer dollars be allowed to be used to promote a partisan message?