# 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:** 460
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9181 "2013-04-09T16:30:51Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > WTF, how would that even work? If I’ve got this straight…you own a restaurant, and post a sign saying “NO GUNS ALLOWED IN HERE”. A robber comes in and holds you up and shoots your cashier. The cashier’s family can sue you, because if you hadn’t been such a libtard he would have been able to defend himself. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9182 "2013-04-09T16:40:29Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > WTF, how would that even work? Basically the same rationale as the “no shirt, no shoes, no service” sign. If that’s up and the place gets robbed, you can sue the establishment because, were it not for that prohibition, it’s possible Bruce Lee would have flown in and prevented it. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9183 "2013-04-09T17:11:26Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > If I’ve got this straight…you own a restaurant, and post a sign saying “NO GUNS ALLOWED IN HERE”. A robber comes in and holds you up and shoots your cashier. > > The cashier’s family can sue you, because if you hadn’t been such a libtard he would have been able to defend himself. Sounds good to me. Can we do it for planes? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9184 "2013-04-09T17:39:25Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Sounds good to me. Can we do it for planes? Brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9185 "2013-04-09T18:10:48Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > If I’ve got this straight…you own a restaurant, and post a sign saying “NO GUNS ALLOWED IN HERE”. A robber comes in and holds you up and shoots your cashier. > > The cashier’s family can sue you, because if you hadn’t been such a libtard he would have been able to defend himself. OK, that sounds totally not idiotic at all (not you jsc, of course). ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9186 "2013-04-09T19:22:17Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > you can sue the establishment because, were it not for that prohibition, it’s possible Bruce Lee would have flown in and prevented it. I’d rather count on Chuck Norris, being as how he’s _alive_. ---
**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:** [April 9, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9187 "2013-04-09T21:10:59Z")
[Okla. Bill: Check Here, Fund Fight Vs. Fed Laws](http://news.google.com/news/url?sr=1&ct2=us%2F1_0_s_1_1_a&sa=t&usg=AFQjCNHAWB_8mLSgeR8lWRc2NUqEeVdQcA&cid=43982023978406&url=http%3A%2F%2Fabcnews.go.com%2FUS%2FwireStory%2Fokla-bill-check-fund-fight-fed-laws-18911532&ei=kYBkUZC8BpOCtweiBA&sig2=H_fKouPFru3RUbADCNC_yg&rt=SECTION&vm=STANDARD&bvm=section&did=-1926443948182182836&sid=3561038501528646764) This is a check-off on the state tax return to contribute dollars to a fund to fight Federal lawsuits arising from our totally (R) legislature’s passage of multiple bills that don’t pass constitutional muster. To his credit, [del]Don Quixote[/del] Atty. Gen. Scott Pruitt did not actually seek this funding for the millions of dollars he is [del]pissing away[/del] spending to fight the Feds. The wierd part is that the bill was introduced as a sort-of-joke by a Democrat who never expected it to even get a committee hearing. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9188 "2013-04-09T21:29:05Z")
The fact that some loon was running around a Texas college campus slashing people with an X-Acto knife indicates that (a) we need an X-Acto knife ban and (b) gun control legislation is useless. At the moment, this train of thought appears to be limited to the idiots who post comments to online news stories, but expect an elected official (likely with an ® after his name) to pick up the torch in 3…2…1… ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9189 "2013-04-10T00:48:47Z")
> **[ItemFix - Social Video Factory](https://www.itemfix.com/?r=ll)** > > Social Video Factory > [@](#): > > With the rest of the United States moving toward relaxing the marijuana laws, Indiana seems to be bravely marching into the past. The Hoosier State’s penalties for marijuana are getting tougher after Gov. Mike Pence requested – and got – stricter laws for low-level cannabis offenders. Why?? Could it be the campaign contributions to Indiana GOPers made by a private prison lobby? Or, to put a Fox News type spin on it, “Some people say he was bribed to provide fodder for the private prison company”. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9190 "2013-04-10T06:06:09Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > Robertson was talking about morons. Cuccinelli was talking about fucking assholes. And dicks fuck assholes . . . ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9191 "2013-04-10T06:09:08Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Boehner rejects Obama’s budget proposals out of hand even though Obama . . . That is bound to apply in all instances, at least until January 2015, regardless of the content of the “even though.” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9192 "2013-04-10T09:07:51Z")
Hey everybody, it’s time for “What did James Inhofe Say _This_ Time?”! Well, apparently he feels that the Newtown families want gun control [because Obama has said so](http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/04/james-inhofe-gun-control-fight-hurts-newtown-victims.html), rather than, y’know, because someone shot their children. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9193 "2013-04-10T16:36:53Z")
“Inhofe is brilliant”, said nobody ever. ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9194 "2013-04-10T19:25:58Z")
Given where this took place, I half-expected it to be my evil college BF: [http://gawker.com/5994272/republican-county-commissioner-who-used-racist-expression-nigger+rigging-during-official-meeting-says-he-isnt-racist-because-he-has-a-black-friend](http://gawker.com/5994272/republican-county-commissioner-who-used-racist-expression-nigger+rigging-during-official-meeting-says-he-isnt-racist-because-he-has-a-black-friend) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9195 "2013-04-10T20:01:53Z")
I’m impressed mostly not that he has a black friend, but that he “built Habitat homes for colored people.” Now there’s some largess you can set your watch to. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9196 "2013-04-10T20:30:04Z")
What time is it? 1963. (Kinda suprised “colored” hasn’t made a comeback to respectability. It was the only term my Texas granny allowed to be used as she considered it respectful. By the time she adapted to “Negro”, it was too late. Bless her heart, she did mean well.) ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9197 "2013-04-10T20:31:27Z")
Who is this one black friend that all of these racist white people seems to have?!? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9198 "2013-04-10T21:52:00Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > What time is it? 1963. Shit! Somebody warn JFK! ---
**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:** [April 10, 2013, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9199 "2013-04-10T22:06:41Z")
Remember Congressman Joe Barton of Texas? The one who apologized to BP on account of the government insisting that they pay to clean up the mess they made in the Gulf? [He done done it again.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuFuDEwTw5M#t=46m40s) [QUOTE=Joe Barton] I would point out, though, that people like me that support hydrocarbon development don’t deny that the climate is changing. I think you can have an honest difference of opinion on what’s causing that change without automatically being either all in, it’s all because of mankind, or it’s all just natural. I think there’s a divergence of evidence. I would point out that if you’re a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change. And that certainly wasn’t because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy. [/QUOTE] ---
**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:** [April 10, 2013, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897/9200 "2013-04-10T22:21:38Z")
I’ve heard of folks denying anthropogenic climate change by invoking sunspots, or volcanoes or other natural phenomenon, but this is the first I’ve heard of the theory of “deity-caused climate change”. I wonder if there are any research institutes currently studying this theory? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=459) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-republican-idea-of-the-day/490897.md?page=461)