# 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:** 1578
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31542 "2016-10-06T17:21:04Z")
A Ohio State Senator, Bill Cooley, has introduced legislation to classify fantasy sports pools, including those conducted by your office mates, as “schemes of chance”, thus giving the Casino Control Commission authority to require registration, licensure, payment of fees, and investigations and penalties if noncompliant. His constituents are not going to love this. [https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-documents?id=GA131-SB-356](https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-documents?id=GA131-SB-356) ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31543 "2016-10-06T18:57:34Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > A Ohio State Senator, Bill Cooley, has introduced legislation to classify fantasy sports pools, including those conducted by your office mates, as “schemes of chance”, thus giving the Casino Control Commission authority to require registration, licensure, payment of fees, and investigations and penalties if noncompliant. > > His constituents are not going to love this. > > [Senate Bill 356 Documents | 131st General Assembly | Ohio Legislature](https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/legislation-documents?id=GA131-SB-356) Maybe, but he’s right. People are betting on this (in fact it’s a hyperfast growing industry) and I don’t see any reason it should be treated any different than any other type of betting - or, for that matter, why the betters shouldn’t get protection from getting ripped off on their bets. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31544 "2016-10-06T19:04:56Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Maybe, but he’s right. People are betting on this (in fact it’s a hyperfast growing industry) and I don’t see any reason it should be treated any different than any other type of betting - or, for that matter, why the betters shouldn’t get protection from getting ripped off on their bets. If we’re talking about office pools, there’s no “industry” to speak of. It’s just a bet between friends. And if Cooley wants to legislate that, I think he’d be infringing upon his constituents personal freedoms. Don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31545 "2016-10-06T19:08:37Z")
[Rush Limbaugh thinks hurricane predictions are a liberal plot.](http://www.liberalamerica.org/2016/10/06/rush-limbaugh-hurricanes-left-wing-conspiracy-tweets-video/) ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31546 "2016-10-06T19:46:16Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > If we’re talking about office pools, there’s no “industry” to speak of. It’s just a bet between friends. And if Cooley wants to legislate that, I think he’d be infringing upon his constituents personal freedoms. Don’t you? Sure, maybe, but then I’m French and therefore used to thorough government infringement :). But even so, you know he’s not \*really \*talking about regulating office pools or friendly agreements and such, any more than laws on casino poker are enforced on Friday nights at Ted from Accounting’s. He wants to regulate the guys who run [this sorry shit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq785nJ0FXQ). ---
**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:** [October 6, 2016, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31547 "2016-10-06T20:00:48Z")
You have heard of praying for rain? In Oklahoma, they are [praying for oil](http://newsok.com/article/5520409). The leader of the Baptist Convention of the Oil Patch Chaplains Ministry, affiliated with the Oilfield Christian Fellowship, says that governor Fallin has declared Oct. 13th to be Oilfield Prayer Day. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31548 "2016-10-06T20:16:42Z")
[Mike Pence will not pardon innocent man](http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/%E2%80%98like-a-slap-in-the-face%E2%80%99-mike-pence-won%E2%80%99t-act-on-wrongfully-convicted-man%E2%80%99s-pardon-request/ar-BBx4hHN) One of his constituents wrongly convicted, already released from prison. Cleared by DNA that pointed to another man. Just wants his record cleared. Even the prosecutor thinks he should be pardoned. > [@](#): > > Michael Christofeno, a former Elkhart County deputy prosecutor, wrote a letter to Pence earlier this year, the Star reported. > > “Justice demands that Mr. Cooper be pardoned,” Christofeno wrote. “We cannot undo the wrongful imprisonment of Mr. Cooper, but we can undo his wrongful conviction with a pardon.” > > Slosar, Cooper’s attorney, said he thought that Christofeno’s letter would be enough to persuade Pence to issue a pardon. It wasn’t. > [@](#): > > In a September letter addressed to Cooper’s attorney, Pence’s general counsel said that Cooper must first exhaust all of his appeal options in court before the governor considers his petition for a pardon, the first of its kind in the state’s history. This was after Cooper had already waited 3 years for a pardon for a crime for which he has been exonerated. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31549 "2016-10-06T22:36:09Z")
Hillary could put Christians in re-education camps. It must be true; [a Christian radio host says so](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/trump-booster-its-not-a-quantum-leap-to-believe-hillary-will-put-christians-in-reeducation-camps/). ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31550 "2016-10-06T22:44:09Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Hillary could put Christians in re-education camps. > > It must be true; [a Christian radio host says so](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/trump-booster-its-not-a-quantum-leap-to-believe-hillary-will-put-christians-in-reeducation-camps/). And where, pray tell, will you put 85% of the country? I would think those camps would be rather…hard to hide. And where did the labor come from to do all this building? And the materials? Who has been producing and transporting all the food and water needed? Who will do the rounding up? Talk about lack of critical thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31551 "2016-10-06T23:03:17Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Talk about lack of critical thinking. A lack of critical thinking is a feature of Christianity, not a bug. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31552 "2016-10-06T23:05:03Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And where, pray tell, will you put 85% of the country? The sort who believes this sort of masochistic martyr-bating also believe that only a fraction of the people who profess to be Christian are True Christians who will be persecuted. :dubious: They’re in that fraction, of course. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31553 "2016-10-06T23:09:50Z")
I’ve known quite a few Christians over my many years. Agreed with few, liked few, but I don’t remember then being THAT stupid. My question would be that if you think Hillary was gonna do it, why would you think the Donald _wouldn’t_? Crikey, he’d sell us all for parts if he could. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31554 "2016-10-06T23:57:49Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And where, pray tell, will you put 85% of the country? I would think those camps would be rather…hard to hide. > And where did the labor come from to do all this building? And the materials? Who has been producing and transporting all the food and water needed? > Who will do the rounding up? > > Talk about lack of critical thinking. I can see some potential here, if you take a Douglas Adams inspired approach. Remember Wonko the Sane? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31555 "2016-10-07T03:01:55Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And where, pray tell, will you put 85% of the country? That ark in Kentucky. ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31556 "2016-10-07T04:02:15Z")
> [@3trew](#): > > I can see some potential here, if you take a Douglas Adams inspired approach. Remember Wonko the Sane? Or Lord Vetinari when he was thrown into his own dungeon, where most of the locks were on the inside? ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31557 "2016-10-07T05:23:38Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > I’ve known quite a few Christians over my many years. Agreed with few, liked few, but I don’t remember then being THAT stupid. > > My question would be that if you think Hillary was gonna do it, why would you think the Donald _wouldn’t_? Crikey, he’d sell us all for parts if he could. What really gets me about Anti-Christ types, is that Trump perfectly fits the profile of who they think he will be - the great deceiver. My sister-in-law is one of those and I would love to point this out to her. She, of course, would respond that the Anti-Christ wouldn’t be someone on _her_ side. Then I’d say “but that’s how he gets you!”. 😃 Oh, well, I gave up beating my head against her wall a long time ago. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31558 "2016-10-07T12:53:15Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > And where, pray tell, will you put 85% of the country? I would think those camps would be rather…hard to hide. I thought they were going to barricade them inside a bunch of Wal\*Marts. Seems sensible to me; do it at, say, 2PM on a Saturday and a good percentage of the ones to be rounded up are already there. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31559 "2016-10-08T03:27:01Z")
According to Hannity, it’s OK that Trump boasted about being a sexual predator, because King David had 500 concubines. I don’t even have words. ---
**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:** [October 8, 2016, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31560 "2016-10-08T04:35:11Z")
Funny, Hannity cannot even get his bible right. It was Solomon who had the large seraglio (300 wives and 700 concubines). If I remember correctly, David only had about 5 wives (and probably enough vodka to cope). ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2016, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/31561 "2016-10-08T06:42:54Z")
Well, David had this thing going on with Bathsheba…don’t think the Bible specifies whether he grabbed her by the pussy or just found her naked body terrifically appealing. Anyway it did not end well for Bathsheba’s unfortunate husband, whose fate was more than mere cuckoldom. But God, we may recall, was not especially thrilled with this little incident and did exact revenge of a sort…as the prophet explained to David, “the sword shall never depart from your house.” Hmm. Donald, beware. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1577) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=1579)