waterj2
March 27, 2013, 2:44am
9061
The font of all knowledge, Conservapedia, does indeed have a page to point out that lesbians are fat , but I don’t see anything listed about them being alcoholics. Perhaps Rush is more up to date than Conservapedia.
jayjay
March 27, 2013, 2:57am
9062
The Domesday Book is more up to date than Conservapedia.
JohnT
March 27, 2013, 3:17am
9063
Top Conservatives vow “DEFCON 6” if USSC overturns gay marriage ban!
This idea that some people have that the court is going to settle the issue in the Republican Party — it’s going to do the exact opposite," Deace added. “It’s going to raise the issue to Orange Threat Level, it’ll be DEFCON 6 …It will become the defining litmus test.”
Uh… so it’s going to be some sort of super peace , one never seen before in post-WW2 history?
:rolleyes:
Spring is iccumin in
Ne swil thu nauer nu , 'luci .
No wonder it’s taking longer than we thought!!
Balance
March 27, 2013, 3:56pm
9067
Gyrate:
Threat Level Fabulous?
Threat Level Rainbow
Because it’s at least 20% cooler.
Rules Are For The Little People, Gohmert Edition:
Shortly after 11 p.m. on March 13, officers wrote Rep. Louie Gohmert a citation for parking his black Ford SUV in a spot reserved for National Park Service vehicles, according to a Park Police report obtained by POLITICO.
But Gohmert wasn’t having it: He told the Park Police that his congressional parking placard allows him to park in that spot, and he’s on the committee that oversees the agency.
Gohmert took the ticket off his windshield and placed it on a police car along with his business card with a written message: “Oversight of Park Service is my job! Natural Resources Thus the Congressional Plate in window.”
He was “rude and irate,” one officer reported. Another wrote that Gohmert was “ranting.”
It seems to be unclear from the Politico article whether Gohmert was allowed to park there. Apparently, members of Congress are allowed to park anywhere when on official business and displaying the appropriate placard. The Park Police officer apparently said he had not noticed the placard and didn’t know what it meant anyway. My question is whether Gohmert was actually on official business.
Acsenray:
It seems to be unclear from the Politico article whether Gohmert was allowed to park there. Apparently, members of Congress are allowed to park anywhere when on official business and displaying the appropriate placard. The Park Police officer apparently said he had not noticed the placard and didn’t know what it meant anyway. My question is whether Gohmert was actually on official business.
From the article:
Gohmert’s communications director, Kimberly Willingham, told POLITICO via email that the congressman had dinner with his stepsister and her husband that evening and decided to drive them to the memorial.
Doesn’t sound very official or businesslike to me.
Doesn’t matter what it “sounds like.” There are actual rules for these kinds of things. As I said, I consider this an open question so far. I’m not ready to assume that dinner with relatives is not official business until someone offers the actual standard for official business.
Acsenray:
It seems to be unclear from the Politico article whether Gohmert was allowed to park there. Apparently, members of Congress are allowed to park anywhere when on official business and displaying the appropriate placard. The Park Police officer apparently said he had not noticed the placard and didn’t know what it meant anyway. My question is whether Gohmert was actually on official business.
I thought the article made it abundantly clear:
How accurate this is, I am not competant to judge, but you’d think “a Park Police spokesman and Capitol Hill source” would know what they’re talking about.
It also said this:
Washington law says members of Congress may park their cars “in any available curb space in the District of Columbia” when it is being used “on official business” and displaying the congressional registration tag issued by the member’s home state. Members may not block loading zones, fire hydrants or rush hour zones.
There doesn’t seem to be a definitive answer in the article.
Well, he is an “official”, and his family is his own damned 'business", so there you go! “Official business”!
Spiff
March 27, 2013, 8:38pm
9075
SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts didn’t get the Marbury v. Madison memo .
From the link:
“If he has made a determination that executing the law by enforcing the terms is unconstitutional, I don’t see why he doesn’t have the courage of his convictions,” Roberts said of Obama, “and execute not only the [DOMA] statute, but do it consistent with his view of the Constitution, rather than saying, oh, we’ll wait till the Supreme Court tells us we have no choice.”
Can you imagine the right wing outcry if President Obama had instructed the Department of Justice not to enforce DOMA?
Except that “executing DOMA consistent with [Obama’s] view of the Constitution” means *not *executing it.
Except that he’s not entitled to make that decision, he is the executive, and if its the law, he has to enforce the law. Unless he’s Andy Jackson, then no.
I know, I was just pointing out the minor flaw in Roberts’ reasoning there.
Well, this is America, where no one is above the law though a lot of folks are underneath it.
Knorf
March 27, 2013, 11:45pm
9080
elucidator:
To me, its mostly about priorities. First take away all the guns, then force Eagle Scouts into gay marriages, and then universal health care.
You left out the mandatory abortions.