On the plus side, double-wrapped bacon scallops sound pretty awesome.
I guess, but if you got bacon, why spoil it with fish?
Or bivalve?
Cut them some slack. Being a high profile politician is always tough for an average family, and the LePages are pretty average. This was not some rich guy deciding he wanted power. These are the kinds of things that most of us would have to do if we ran for high office. Which is why most of us don’t. It’s difficult and then we get shit for it anyway.
I won’t cut Paul LePage slack for anything. He’s a horrible, evil excuse for a human being who should be turned into glue.
There’s no shortage of material for LePage, of all governors, to get shit for, and lots of it. ETA: What Rick Kitchen just said.
Paging Beckett! Paging Samuel Beckett! Clean-up on Aisle 4. A couple of idiot parents dropped the last two letters.
I coulda sworn, we’ve seen this movie before. I just know I remember some kind of case like that from a few years ago.
Aha! Reading the linked article:
Yes! This is that family! (Trying to google up some contemporary news reports from 2006, but all I can find on google is more current news. Somebody with better google-fu please?)
The Federal Elections Commission ruled that Mike Huckabee violated copyright by using Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” during his rally when anti-gay county clerk Kim Davis was released from prison. He tried to pass the cost off to his presidential campaign fund, but the FEC has said that, since Huckabee claimed that the rally was religious, and not political, he has to pay the fine personally.
This really belongs in a ‘Cosmic Justice of the Day’ thread.
Emphasis mine.
The bolded section is not quite correct. The FEC does not make rulings on copyright infringement, and they made no such ruling in this case. As your own story says, Huckabee and the band Survivor settled out of court, so there was no actual ruling at all on the copyright issue. The FEC’s ruling pertained only to the issue of whether or not Huckabee could use his campaign fund to pay the settlement.
Still very nice to see Huckabee lose out on this one, and have to pay the settlement himself.
Even further clarification, for anyone who didn’t read the link: Huckabee had tried to claim the appearance as a non-commercial religious event, so that he had the right to play the music under fair-use rules. He then tried to pass of the settlement cost to his presidential campaign. He tried to have it both ways.
How can he be a Christian minister when he wants it both ways?
You gotta love that. I wonder if he’ll now claim that he was misunderstood and that it was indeed a campaign event. I wouldn’t be surprised.
I think I may have jumped on this particular bandwagon prematurely.
As much as I despise Huckabee, I think the ruling is being misinterpreted by that Daily Kos writer. It seems to be about whether the settlement can be paid for by a special defense fun instead of his campaign, and it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with religion.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2917039-Fec-Huckabee-2.html
Any link Rick Kitchen provides is worth looking at twice, or three times. He simply pastes whatever shows up on his facebook, with no regard to whether it’s accurate. His links are occasionally correct, but it’s rare.
It’s obvious that he spends no time whatsoever verifying them. He is as useless as BrainGlutton was.
I usually try to make a habit of checking links out before piling on with everyone else, especially when they fit a stereotype very neatly, push all of the right buttons (hypocrisy, schadenfreude, etc.), and especially when they’re attacking something that I like seeing attacked (because I should trust my judgement less in those cases). I slipped up on this one and responded before reading. :smack:
There’s a reason I blocked you, Frank.
I don’t want you to think that I was agreeing with Frank’s assessment of you. I was just pointing out that I think that you had been misled on this. I’ve posted one or two things in the past that I should have researched better. We’re all human.