# 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:** 1393
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27842 "2016-03-10T19:27:59Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > 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. If we’re guessing, my guess is that the dairy industry wanted to eliminate the costs of pasteurization to as large an extent as possible, and possibly sucked in some woo types to show off in an astroturf campaign. ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27843 "2016-03-10T19:58:17Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > If we’re guessing, my guess is that the dairy industry wanted to eliminate the costs of pasteurization to as large an extent as possible, and possibly sucked in some woo types to show off in an astroturf campaign. I used to work kinda-sorta of with that industry and I can tell you the last thing the dairy industry wants is raw milk legalization. The dairy industry is very much a proponent of the current regulatory system, and in fact the pasteurized milk ordinance which your state probably adopts in whole is a dairy industry written document. ---
**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, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27844 "2016-03-10T20:59:54Z")
> [@YogSothoth](#): > > Fuck Michael Savage. I want this to be true so that assholes like him can be scared of what Obama can do. Well, _every_ president gets three secret murders but if they don’t use them by the end of the term, _ffft_, they’re gone. ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27845 "2016-03-10T21:38:34Z")
> [@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). The law technically does not permit the sale of unpasteurized milk. It allows people to enter into herdsharing agreements and to receive raw milk as part of that agreement. It does not allow them to sell or distribute the milk. So technically a legislator offering other legislators glasses of raw milk would still be illegal. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27846 "2016-03-10T23:44:41Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > Don’t know what happened to the Evil Republican Idea of the Day thread. [It is still around](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19169614#post19169614). You might want to subscribe to it. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27847 "2016-03-11T00:18:31Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Because Science is Evil, duh! Science is good. I’m not a raw-milk guy, but there is [evidence](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17456213.1) that raw dairy consumption in childhood protects against asthma and allergy. Also, [a current study](http://nutrition.stanford.edu/projects/RawMilkStudy.html) is exploring the widely-held idea that raw milk is more acceptable for people with lactose intolerance. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27848 "2016-03-11T16:03:47Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > Science is good. I’m not a raw-milk guy, but there is [evidence](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17456213.1) that raw dairy consumption in childhood protects against asthma and allergy. Possibly in a Nietzche sense of that which does not [kill us](http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/rawmilk/raw-milk-questions-and-answers.html#who) makes us stronger. [QUOTE=CDC] The risk of getting sick from drinking raw milk is greater for\*\* infants and young children\*\*, the elderly, pregnant women, and people with weakened immune systems, such as people with cancer, an organ transplant, or HIV/AIDS, than it is for healthy school-aged children and adults. But, it is important to remember that healthy people of any age can get very sick or even die if they drink raw milk contaminated with harmful germs. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27849 "2016-03-11T16:10:34Z")
Sarah Palin busts Ted Cruz for his [“short, half-term U.S. Senate seat”](https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/photos/a.10150723283643588.424640.24718773587/10154013835098588/?type=1&theater). > [@](#): > > Where’s information on any Cruz success whilst in his short, half-term U.S. Senate seat, proving his resume’s advantage over another career politicians’s lawyerly executive inexperience that includes never having created a single private sector job, but boasting of his constitutional law teacher creds? (Remember America experimented with that resume before; how’d that work out for the country?) ---
**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 11, 2016, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27850 "2016-03-11T16:12:41Z")
And just like that, the nation faced an unprecedented shortage of irony meters. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27851 "2016-03-11T16:29:44Z")
Any food industry is keenly aware of the disastrous effects of bad PR. If raw milk goes to supermarkets so the Dairy industry can save a few bucks on the process all the ‘Got Milk?’ ads in the world won’t save them when rounds of people end up sick or dead. I doubt they want this at all. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27852 "2016-03-11T16:39:50Z")
\*…but boasting of his constitutional law teacher creds? (Remember America experimented with that resume before; **how’d that work out for the country**?) \* Pretty damn well, actually. Thanks for bringing that up, Sarah! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27853 "2016-03-11T16:42:57Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Sarah Palin busts Ted Cruz for his [“short, half-term U.S. Senate seat”](https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/photos/a.10150723283643588.424640.24718773587/10154013835098588/?type=1&theater). Whoa…and it’s really her! Checkmark and everything. I guess I just honestly couldn’t believe any actual human being could be so incredibly un-self-aware… ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27854 "2016-03-11T17:11:27Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Possibly in a Nietzche sense of that which does not [kill us](http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/rawmilk/raw-milk-questions-and-answers.html#who) makes us stronger. No, different mechanisms, presumably. The allergy benefit doesn’t come from the organisms that are the hazard in _some_ lots of raw dairy. > [@Sitnam](#): > > Any food industry is keenly aware of the disastrous effects of bad PR. If raw milk goes to supermarkets so the Dairy industry can save a few bucks on the process all the ‘Got Milk?’ ads in the world won’t save them when rounds of people end up sick or dead. > > I doubt they want this at all. Major dairy producers are definitely against raw milk, and those who advocate it are not doing so on cost and price factors. Further discussion of this probably belongs in [the dedicated thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19165401). ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27855 "2016-03-11T17:16:17Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Whoa…and it’s really her! Checkmark and everything. I guess I just honestly couldn’t believe any actual human being could be so incredibly un-self-aware… After losing the election didn’t she publish a biography titled The Undefeated? ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27856 "2016-03-11T20:02:30Z")
That crazy GOP chair of Travis County Texas says he’s ready for “flushing the commode on the corroded rectum of American politics.” How do you ask?[Easy, he’s going to out all the closeted republicans.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/robert-morrow-closet-gays_us_56e1bfc4e4b065e2e3d51ea5) Awesome! ---
**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 11, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27857 "2016-03-11T20:41:45Z")
Indiana wants to ban abortions where there are defects in the fetus, including Downs’ Syndrome. Furthermore, donating fetal tissue would be a felony. Even some Indiana republicans are against this bill: [http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/03/11/3759097/indiana-abortion-republicans/](http://thinkprogress.org/health/2016/03/11/3759097/indiana-abortion-republicans/) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27858 "2016-03-11T20:52:43Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > That crazy GOP chair of Travis County Texas says he’s ready for “flushing the commode on the corroded rectum of American politics.” > > ! Ummm — that metaphor doesn’t make a lot of sense. “corroded rectum”? Maybe Bender has one. And who flushes a commode on a rectum? Are his policies as well thought-out as this? ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27859 "2016-03-11T21:00:03Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Ummm — that metaphor doesn’t make a lot of sense. “corroded rectum”? Maybe Bender has one. And who flushes a commode on a rectum? > > Are his policies as well thought-out as this? From various articles, he seems to have a strangely monomaniacal fixation on Homosexuality and anuses. I’m sure there’s nothing to it. Absolutely no chance that he’s a self-hating closeted gay man who never worked it out. ---
**Author:** ![yanceylebeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yanceylebeef/32/12290_2.png) [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27860 "2016-03-11T21:09:53Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Ummm — that metaphor doesn’t make a lot of sense. “corroded rectum”? Maybe Bender has one. And who flushes a commode on a rectum? > > Are his policies as well thought-out as this? Yeah, I didn’t get it either. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/27861 "2016-03-11T22:35:23Z")
OKLAHOMA CITY — Accompanied by Bible readings and constitutional fervor, the Oklahoma House of Representatives voted Thursday to remove license and training requirements for handguns carried openly. Rep. Jeff Coody said his House Bill 3098 acknowledges rights granted by God and the U.S. Constitution. Rep. John Bennett, R-Sapulpa, backed Coody by reading a selection of Bible verses he said empowers believers to defend themselves. > **[Oklahoma House votes to eliminate license, training requirements for openly...](https://tulsaworld.com/homepagelatest/oklahoma-house-votes-to-eliminate-license-training-requirements-for-openly/article_e34c8be0-4adf-56ca-8424-3726304d6187.html)** > > Rep. Jeff Coody said his House Bill 3098 acknowledges rights granted by God and the Constitution. Rep. John Bennett, R-Sapulpa, backed Coody by reading a selection of Bible verses he $1.3 billion in debt, crumbling infrastructure, 49th in most education measurements (thanks Mississippi), but going down with guns blazing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1392) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1394)