# Stupid Republican idea of the day
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897
**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
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4681 "2012-03-01T18:42:22Z")
> [@Enderw24](#):
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> Also, Fluke wasn’t testifying about her lusty, wanton desire for sex. She was talking about a friend of hers who needed it to control a medical condition.
For awhile, I thought you meant there were girls who needed sex to control a medical condition, and was wondering where some of them might be located.
But yeah. Birth control pills to control a medical condition. Totally slutty.
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### Author:  [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4682 "2012-03-01T22:37:19Z")
> [@Ludovic](#):
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> For awhile, I thought you meant there were girls who needed sex to control a medical condition,
I tried that whole “I need sex to control a medical condition” thing in college but it didn’t work work.
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### Author:  [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4683 "2012-03-01T22:44:40Z")
> [@Skammer](#):
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> I tried that whole “I need sex to control a medical condition” thing in college but it didn’t work.
[Cecil sounds a little skeptical about it too:](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/463/why-do-ones-loins-ache-after-a-session-of-nonclimactic-arousal)
> [@](#):
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> At least one researcher has suggested that pressure in the gonads during sex can cause a back-up of sperm into the prostate, which in turn can lead to prostate cancer — further proof that everything fun in this world is bad for you. Presumably a lengthy bout of non-orgasmic sex, in which the pressure never gets relieved, would make cancer even more likely. Sounds grim, but look on the bright side: it offers a valuable addition to the frustrated male’s arsenal of can’t-miss makeout lines. Now, in addition to “I’m leaving tomorrow on a suicide mission” and “Hey, they might drop The Bomb tomorrow,” there’s “Cheezit, honey, you want me to get cancer?”
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4684 "2012-03-01T22:56:52Z")
> [@Skammer](#):
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> I tried that whole “I need sex to control a medical condition” thing in college but it didn’t work work.
Ah, _pila caerula_
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4685 "2012-03-02T01:11:09Z")
> [@biddee](#):
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> Don’t know if this little gem has popped up in this thread (I can’t go back and read 116 pages) but Nebraska is considering making this a law.
> [Nebraska Legislature Considers Justifiable Homicide of Abortion Doctors](http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/02/29/nebraska-legislature-considers-justifiable-homicide-abortion-doctors)
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> Of course it is being proposed by a Republican senator.
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> This article has been removed for containing errors, which we regret.
:dubious:
ETA: Found it on Mother Jones: [Nebraska Resurrects “Justifiable Homicide” Abortion Bill – Mother Jones](http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/nebraska-justifiable-homicide-abortion-bill)
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### Author:  [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4686 "2012-03-02T06:49:00Z")
> [@biddee](#):
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> Don’t know if this little gem has popped up in this thread (I can’t go back and read 116 pages) but Nebraska is considering making this a law.
> [Nebraska Legislature Considers Justifiable Homicide of Abortion Doctors](http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/article/2012/02/29/nebraska-legislature-considers-justifiable-homicide-abortion-doctors)
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> Of course it is being proposed by a Republican senator.
Along with his new state motto - “Nebraska: The corn-hole state”
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### Author:  [@Oliveritaly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oliveritaly)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4687 "2012-03-02T08:45:52Z")
Thank god Maricopa county Sheriff Joe Arpaio has FINALLY weighed in on this whole birther issue!
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4688 "2012-03-02T13:21:58Z")
I’m glad that SOMEONE is finally addressing the problem of foreign-born Presidential candidates. This may be just the break the McCain campaign needs!
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### Author:  [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4689 "2012-03-02T16:34:09Z")
> [@Oliveritaly](#):
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> Thank god Maricopa county Sheriff Joe Arpaio has FINALLY weighed in on this whole birther issue!
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> [HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News | HuffPost](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120302/us-arizona-sheriff-obama-birth/)
No Huffpo at work (besides, I don’t want to give her more traffic, until she drops the anti-vax shit). What did Joe the Ass have to say?
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### Author:  [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4690 "2012-03-02T16:44:38Z")
Shockingly, Joe’s volunteer posse has concluded that the birth certificate AND Obama’s draft card are forgeries! Thank God for Joe’s volunteer posse, only they have the acumen to evaluate the evidence in such depth…:dubious:
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### Author:  [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4691 "2012-03-02T18:35:51Z")
Indiana House Approves Bill That Allows Homeowners To Kill Police Officers. [Cite](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/03/02/indiana-house-approves-bill-that-allows-homeowners-to-kill-police-officers/).
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> Republicans claim the bill actually protects police officers, but what it really does is give paranoid gun toting anti-government nut jobs the legal ability to shoot any officer that steps in their home or on their property. It allows those who commit a crime to have a safe haven from police officers who pursue them. All a criminal needs to do is run home to legally resist arrest.
_That’s_ thinking outside the box!
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4692 "2012-03-02T19:59:28Z")
No way. Just no way.
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### Author:  [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4693 "2012-03-02T20:17:06Z")
Who is this Barnes guy? He just wants to be able to beat his wife in peace and quiet, with no interruptions! :eek:
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4694 "2012-03-02T20:45:15Z")
FYI, here is the draft text of the [shoot the cops bill](http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/IN/IN0001.1.html). From what I understand, slightly different versions have passed both Houses, so they need to be reconciled and passed again and get the governor’s signature.
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### Author:  [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4695 "2012-03-02T21:09:32Z")
I am utterly fucking gobsmacked.
You know, I am just about convinced that a mad scientist developed a tool that created a worm hole that sent the entire planet to another universe, and the transition sent a whole lot of people fucking nuts. That’s the only thing that could explain what the hell is going on around this country lately.
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### Author:  [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4696 "2012-03-02T21:49:20Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#):
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> There’s another article somewhere where a dude argues that because a student claimed it costs 3000 for three years of birth control PILLS without a prescription, that it means that she’s having sex four times a day because that’s what CONDOMS would cost.
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> Math is hard.
I was surprised that there’s not a Pit thread going on Rush and Slutgate, but whatever. Someone should gently explain to the poor man how birth control pills work…that you take one a day, regardless of how many times you fornicate like filthy animals.
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### Author:  [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4697 "2012-03-02T21:50:32Z")
So, wouldn’t Federal law trump state law on the Kill The Doctors and Kill The Cops bills? In other words, is murder only a state crime or both a state and federal crime? What about if some Indianan kills an FBI agent running through his back yard?
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4698 "2012-03-02T21:54:26Z")
IIRC, in the past, the Feds have prosecuted murder as a denial of civil rights with extreme prejudice.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4699 "2012-03-02T22:08:28Z")
> [@campp](#):
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> So, wouldn’t Federal law trump state law on the Kill The Doctors and Kill The Cops bills? In other words, is murder only a state crime or both a state and federal crime? What about if some Indianan kills an FBI agent running through his back yard?
Not all murders are Federal crimes. Murder of Federal employees and elected officials is a Federal crime. Murder of people on Federal property is a Federal crime.
[Ah, I found a list](http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/federal-laws-providing-death-penalty). There are more than I thought, and the list may not be exhaustive since it only includes those in which the death penalty is possible.
One is particularly interesting is First Degree Murder, which seems pretty broadly defined [according to Cornell University](http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1111). Any murder that includes premeditation can apparently be prosecuted Federally. I don’t know how much premeditation is necessary, and it’s certainly possible that it couldn’t be applied to cops busting through the door of your house.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2012, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/4700 "2012-03-02T22:14:06Z")
No way this goes forward. If it turns out that the wording of the law is likely to be interpreted that way, it will be walked back at warp speed.
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