I am also in Florida, and I must note, I’m only came for the beer and the bitches.
I don’t drink beer, and I don’t really refer to women as bitches, but that’s the line.
Also Florida *is *America’s flaccid sweaty uncircumcised dick, but Rick Scott is the genital wart on the mushroom head. We would do a lot better without it.
It’s a state where there’s a crapton of really, really shitty Republicans, but the Democratic party is so disorganized and underwhelming that there’s no one we can hold up and go “This is our awesome champion that you should instead vote for.”
Anyone remember Kendrick Meek? The name fits. He is the reason we have Marco Rubio right now.
See, with Democrats, you can’t get really shitty candidates to get elected unless the state is solid blue. With Republicans, they’re mostly all corrupted turds, so *anytime *a Republican wins, it’s a corrupted turd in charge.
I’m not even being hyperbolic, all the good Republicans got voted out, primaried into oblivion, or retired a long time ago.
Between corporate lobbying, money distorting elections, and the teabaggers, yep, that was bound to happen.
We accidentally were the good guys in WWII. Since then, our government has basically been the diplomatic and military wing of various large corporations. Plus now our robber barons shit on people halfway around the world. At least technology mainly kept their bullshit within our borders before WWII.
Woo-hoo! 'Merica.
Ask yourself what makes us better than Russia or China.
If it’s a strong economy, or advanced technology, or a strong military, I mean, they have those things too. Maybe not quite as good, but far better than most.
So what is it about America that makes us the good guys? What is it about America that is a great place to be? *Why *are we so great, if we’re so great?
Is it rights and freedoms and protections for minorities, is it justice? Because those things have been the concern of pretty much only the traitorous far left that supposedly exists in our government, which I have trouble seeing, what with Obama and the Democrats being centrist at best, with their watered-down recycled Republican ideas for healthcare and their Republican-lite tax policies, among other things.
The only difference I see is that Democrats are going to be more likely to support minority rights, actual freedom of speech issues, and are less likely to put our troops in harm’s way for no good reason, and if* that’s* their scorecard, they’ve done a remarkably shitty job of that, too. What Democrats purportedly believe in and what they actually manage to do or push as their main cause are two different things.
Republicans actually push their shitty ideas until they become law. Look at Oklahoma and see how well their ideas have been faring. But they actually accomplished all they set out to do, in the absence of meddling Democrats.
Watch them repeal a healthcare law 50+ times in the House. When they say they’ll do something, they’ll give it the ol’ congressional try. Or try to do something about it in court, regardless of how extremist or unfair it is.
Meanwhile, Democrats will support ideas like a better wage, or universal healthcare, or closing gitmo, or restoring rights and protections we lost supposedly to provide us with better defenses against terrorism, but they’ll do nothing about it. They’ll talk about how Republicans can’t be trusted to balance a budget, since all they do is cut taxes and spend using funds we don’t have, and then do nothing with a supermajority and a mandate except carry on the same policies.
Conservatives talk about this great liberal far left menace about to run this country into the ground, and I want what drugs they’re on, because I don’t see it. I really wish I saw such a left-wing, it doesn’t exist.
Sanders, Warren, Franken. Very few others who actually espouse an ideological difference with the tea party, and vote that way. Not enough to threaten even the milquetoast majority of Democrats with attacks from the left.
You never hear of Democrats being primaried out of existence by further and further extreme-left Democrats. You only hear about the Republicans getting out-right-winged by increasingly unhinged clueless frothing mad right wingers who talk and shit comes out of their mouths, and they are the ones who get elected.
The only liberals that exist are ones that actually want universal health care and a better minimum wage, and look among the Democrats and examine their history and tell me that even a percentage as high as twenty actually support both. And that wouldn’t be left-wing in other countries. In other countries, it’s what the normal is. And they wonder why we can’t get our shit together and figure out how to take care of sick people, or compensate our workers in such a way they can actually pay their fucking bills without holding down two jobs.
I pine for the menace of a vast liberal left-wing conspiracy to take over our great nation. Where *is *this menace, and how can I join?
Without reformists willing to fight in an armed struggle, Capitalism has little to fear.
Maybe the governor thinks the spirit of the law was never intended to reach background information about hiring and firing.
I don’t. I think that any employer should be free to discuss sensitive information abut employee retention and hiring without fear that such discussions would become public.
Funny that YOU get to simply declare what the spirit of the law is, though, huh?
I remember “that shit.” I remember that the biggest issue for mistaken votes was the poorly-designed “butterfly ballot,” which confused voters into voting for Buchanan, and that ballot was designed by a Democrat.
Funny how that fact gets lost in the retelling.
Well, he gets to express his opinion on the matter, yes. Since this is one of those Sunshine Laws, about transparency and disclosure in government proceedings, seems to me he’s got a point.
Now, if you have a different opinion, you are welcome to express it, or simply content yourself with a snide insinuation. Of course, an opinion, you might be called upon to back it up, but with this, you can just pee on his shoes and flounce away.
Damn, he pulled the liberal hypocrisy trump card, and Bricker wins again!
Uhhhhhh… that was his opinion, backed up with why he thought it was reasonable. Certainly backed up more than the guy he was responding to did.
I suppose so, given a generous interpretation. A *weak *opinion, conflating an ordinary employer/employee relationship with government civil servants, who have the people as their ultimate employer. Point taken.