Its show business. That’s how he makes his living.
A desperate man, indeed.
Nonsense; I clearly described a scenario implying a religiously-motivated lifestyle choice. Are you one of those bigots who dismisses pious Christians as “largely poor, uneducated, and easy to command”?
Even if your argument didn’t fall apart upon examination, it is irrelevant – either one can justify charging extra for connecting to the power grid while tapping it just a little, or one cannot.
More from Christie on the subject:
Your proposal is acceptable.
Such statistics should usually be mistrusted: Sales tax, payroll taxes, gasoline taxes are usually ignored in such comparisons. Farming subsidies that benefit the rich are not subtracted; and so on.
Of course these distinctions can be spun: When you tax the dividends of the rich, you’re sapping the spirit of Job Creators and making them want to dissipate their wealth so they can enjoy suckling at the teat like their more fortunate, because more poor, fellows. Payroll taxes, OTOH, are a useful device for those too stupid to become Job Creators, or otherwise evade government taxation, and provide a stopgap for these inferior beings who would otherwise be suckling at the rich taxpayers’ teats.
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Especially amusing are the many right-wing pundits who whine that the 1% pay more total taxes than ever, as if that pointed to increasing equality. :smack: Even a sixth-grader would probably figure out that the 1%'s taxes are going up because their income is going up.
When the purveyors of gas, gold, milk, or dreams are allowed to engage in a state-sanctioned monopoly, then i will worry about those products.
Electricity is, in most markets, a monopoly business, and for decades society has recognized that being allowed to operate as a monopoly places the providers of utility services like electricity under certain obligations that do not apply to businesses that operate in a regular, competitive market.
The fact that you are willing to pretend that the electricity market works like the market for milk suggests either willful disingenuousness, or ignorance.
Chris Christie named Father of the Year! (Not by the GOP or any Republican organization – you need to read the article to understand why that is a SRIOTD.)
Didn’t he fly to one of his sons’ football games in a helicopter? Nothing can be cooler than that! And I’ll bet you he gets a hooker for his son’s 18th birthday – best dad ever!
NO, Chris Christtie did NOT fly to one of his sons’ football games in a helicopter. That would be totally unacceptable and a ridiculous waste of taxpayer funds; no responsible governor would use the state’s law enforcement assets for such a trivial display of power and stature as flying in to attend a high school football game.
Let’s see.
Dogmatic, willfully ignorant, afraid of modern education, and convinced that they are fighting a righteous war against heathens.
I wonder if these people realize how much they have in common with Boko Haram?
I know why Rosenberg drives me nucking futs. And Wagner too.
“Ignoring things being yelled at you” is nowhere close to “ignoring your kids.”
That’s a really weak fucking limb to stand on and attempt to paint Christie as a lousy dad.
Huh. I wouldn’t have thought it was controversial that Christie ignoring his kids when they yell at him also means that (at times) Christie is ignoring his kids.
I’m sorry, I honestly can’t tell if you’re being snarky.
If that’s the standard we’re talking about, then every single parent who has ever lived is guilty of being “crummy.”
You are missing the point of the story, and a very important point it is.
No, I got it. And if you want to write a story about “conservative” vs. “liberal” parenting styles, awesome. But calling him a “crummy father” and transforming “I have a finely-honed skill to ignore things that are being yelled at me” into simply “a finely-honed skill to ignore things, including his children” are not useful to the point, IMO.
There may, as Rosenberg claims, be some “ugly truths” to “conservative parenting,” and it might well be a productive discussion. But one comment, aggressively misrepresented and overblown, is an insufficient launching pad for that discussion.
I’m not sure that he is.
The article is supposed to be about Christie then goes of on a rant about conservative\liberal styles without saying really anything about Christie’s parenting. He paints with a very wide brush, as if no conservative fathers can be nurturing and no liberal fathers can be dicks.
He may have a larger point to make about parenting styles and which are better\more successful and may have some data to back it up…but what does that have to do with Christie and FOY?
Ninja’d, dammit
Or, indeed, with a parental policy of not responding to shouting?
That’s what’s bugging me here the most, honestly. I set a policy when my child was young of simply ignoring anything he chose to shout, yell, or scream at me. (Within reason, natch; I would respond to “Oh god oh god the bees they’re everywhere!”)
This is not, IMNSHO, unreasonable. Nor does it mean I am not a bleeding heart caring nurturer, as a parent or a person.
When someone decides to paint that as “andros ignores his child!” I’mma be a little pissed.
I’m not going to engage with you until you calm down and speak in a polite voice. 
They hope to attract 1,000 people to some fairgrounds in Iowa? Yeah, sounds about right for a Tea Party version of Woodstock.
I used to be a newspaper reporter and take it from me, a news hook is a news hook.
“Stay away from the brown Bibles! Bummer, man…”