# Stupid Republican idea of the day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 26, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897 "2009-03-26T18:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1392
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27822 "2016-03-10T00:10:18Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Obama ordered the CIA to hire a hooker to kill Scalia.](http://crooksandliars.com/2016/03/michael-savage-obama-hired-2k-day-hooker) :o . . . Ermmm . . . Ermmm, yeah, that’s right. It was the CIA who hired the hooker who killed Scalia. That’s right, the CIA. (Think you can stick with that story, Angel Cheeks?) ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@Troy\_McClure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27823 "2016-03-10T00:28:25Z")
> [@Sinaptics](#): > > I’ve seen raw milk for sale in a supermarket in the Pocono mountains in PA. > > I’ve always wanted to try it, based on how much my mother said she loved it when she was a kid, but I’d rather try a bit fresh, not stored for God knows how long it takes to get to the market and get sold. > > On the other hand, my mother also likes butter milk, which I find disgusting. I grew up on a dairy farm and we drank raw milk from the get-go, and I’m pretty sure none of us ever got sick because of it. However, we were probably also being constantly inoculated against the bacteria, what with milking the cows and shoveling manure and running around barefoot a lot. But it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if somebody who hadn’t been expose to the right sorts of bacteria would get sick from it. Pasteurized/homogenized milk has always tasted a little wrong to me, sort of a faint metallic taste and not as sweet. Processed whole milk is also probably a little lower in butterfat, since our milk typically tested in the 4-5% range, and the U.S. requirement for whole milk is 3.25%, so I assume the processors skim off as much fat as they can get away with for cheese and ice cream and higher profit margin products. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27824 "2016-03-10T03:35:46Z")
Kentucky finally getting around to doing something about that pesky miscegenation. Introduces a bill that would legally allow virtually anyone to deny service to ANYONE who they feel compromises their religious beliefs, and that said refusers are immune from penalty, even by the SCotUS. [http://progressky.com/2016/03/senate-blocks-interracial-interfaith-marriages-sb-180/](http://progressky.com/2016/03/senate-blocks-interracial-interfaith-marriages-sb-180/) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27825 "2016-03-10T03:38:32Z")
Of course, the bill has rightfully been blocked. But the fact that it was introduced in the first place is less mind-blowing than it probably should be. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27826 "2016-03-10T03:52:41Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Kentucky finally getting around to doing something about that pesky miscegenation. Introduces a bill that would legally allow virtually anyone to deny service to ANYONE who they feel compromises their religious beliefs, and that said refusers are immune from penalty, even by the SCotUS. > > [http://progressky.com/2016/03/senate-blocks-interracial-interfaith-marriages-sb-180/](http://progressky.com/2016/03/senate-blocks-interracial-interfaith-marriages-sb-180/) So, if an escort’s online ad (I have heard some sort of unconfirmed rumors that such things might possibly exist, believe it or not) says “No AAs” or “No black guys” or “No blacks under 35” (😕), she is now immune from prosecution or lawsuit for that, at least in Kentucky? 🙂 Yeah! Freedom reigns! ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27827 "2016-03-10T03:56:06Z")
So now everyone has a right to a lapdance whether the stripper wants to give you one or not. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27828 "2016-03-10T03:59:03Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > So now everyone has a right to a lapdance whether the stripper wants to give you one or not. Well, not if it’s against her religious beliefs. You wouldn’t **believe** how many strippers claim such beliefs no matter how many twenties I wave, it is a puzzlement. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27829 "2016-03-10T04:27:24Z")
Well, as the band the Bloodhound Gang told us, " a lapdance is so much better when the stripper is crying" ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27830 "2016-03-10T04:28:14Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Of course, the bill has rightfully been blocked. But the fact that it was introduced in the first place is less mind-blowing than it probably should be. The strategy has roots. Tennessee’s legislature, some decade or so ago, tried to establish the penalty for physically beating up a flag burner to be only a ten dollar fine. It didn’t go anywhere; it was too obviously unconstitutional. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27831 "2016-03-10T04:44:53Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > The strategy has roots. Tennessee’s legislature, some decade or so ago, tried to establish the penalty for physically beating up a flag burner to be only a ten dollar fine. It didn’t go anywhere; it was too obviously unconstitutional. Is it? I can picture amendment to a state’s assault law such that the actions of the victim (ie burning a flag) are a mitigating factor in sentencing, but don’t see any obvious constitutional issue. It’s a stupid idea, certainly, but the burning itself is not being penalized, by the state at least. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27832 "2016-03-10T05:52:43Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Is it? I can picture amendment to a state’s assault law such that the actions of the victim (ie burning a flag) are a mitigating factor in sentencing, but don’t see any obvious constitutional issue. Well, the constitutional issue is that flag-burning can be construed as a form of “political speech” (certainly it is never done for any other purpose), and therefore, along with religious speech, entitled to the very highest level of First Amendment protection (and, yes, there are lower levels, very well established as lower, but very well established as constitutional, in American constitutional law, which is why God gets to make Internet porn, bless Him). ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27833 "2016-03-10T06:26:27Z")
It’s also unconstitutional because it denies “equal protection under the law,” making one specific group of people open targets for assault. It was a rough attempt at “outlawing,” i.e., declaring a group of people “outside the law.” The equal protection clause, and the ban on bills of attainder, make this approach intolerable. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27834 "2016-03-10T13:59:52Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > You wouldn’t **believe** how many strippers claim such beliefs no matter how many twenties I wave, it is a puzzlement. We’ve gone over this before, son. It’s because you’re waiving lira. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27835 "2016-03-10T14:57:49Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > So, if an escort’s online ad (I have heard some sort of unconfirmed rumors that such things might possibly exist, believe it or not) says “No AAs” or “No black guys” or “No blacks under 35” (😕), she is now immune from prosecution or lawsuit for that, at least in Kentucky? 🙂 Yeah! Freedom reigns! AA = African American? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27836 "2016-03-10T15:36:32Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > AA = African American? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27837 "2016-03-10T15:43:33Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > > [@Revtim](#): > > > > AA = African American? > > Yes. Oh. I thought she simply didn’t want to get flak. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27838 "2016-03-10T15:56:04Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > A $2K/night hooker, too. > > Actually, that sounds like kind of a bargain for whacking a SC justice. Way to show fiscal prudence with the taxpayers’ purse, Obama! > > 😃 Too bad they didn’t activate the hooker-assassin before February 2013, when Obama became a lame-duck no longer allowed to appoint Justices. But it does seem like a very _humane_ way to execute. Maybe it should be adopted on death rows. Isn’t $2000 less than states are spending on their imported “drug cocktail”? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27839 "2016-03-10T17:42:05Z")
Not since they discovered Drano. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27840 "2016-03-10T18:26:43Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > It is not as though they _outlawed_ pasteurization. They simply made the sale of unpasteurized milk legal. As long as the product is properly identified, people should be able to make an informed choice (until they pass a law outlawing food labels, which is probably in ALEC-draft form). I still think its a bad idea. Improperly handed raw milk, according to the [CDC](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteurization#Milk), “is responsible for nearly three times more hospitalizations than any other food-borne disease outbreak, making it one of the world’s most dangerous food products” This is like Upton Sinclair and the Jungle, we can’t have people think that being allowed to sell dangerous things is ok. At some point, government must intervene to take care of people too stupid to take care of themselves. I like being able to go to the market and not worry about if the things I buy are going to kill me. I don’t want the “freedom” to accidentally kill myself because I read a label improperly, and of course the next step is to remove food labels > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > [Obama ordered the CIA to hire a hooker to kill Scalia.](http://crooksandliars.com/2016/03/michael-savage-obama-hired-2k-day-hooker) Fuck Michael Savage. I want this to be true so that assholes like him can be scared of what Obama can do. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27841 "2016-03-10T19:17:40Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Who introduced the bill? My guess is a Republican and if so it’s a Republican idea. Ah, selling raw milk is more of a health food thing which tends, if anything, to be a fixation of hippy liberal types, although I imagine there’s a strong overlap with the “we don’t need vaccinations because natural stuff won’t kill us” and “we don’t need regulations because businesses would never do anything unethical like not sterilizing their milking equipment” crowds. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1391) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1393)