Pretty sure skinny neckscarves go back to ancient Rome, ami.
It’s really no fair comparing France to the entire Muslim world; they can pull in al-Khwarizmi and folks like that. Better to compare modern secular France to modern Islamism; then you win.
As someone who bemoans the dismantling of internal accountability offices in the Clinton/Gore era, I’m torn. More internal accountability might actually be a good idea, except that I can’t trust these maniacs to base it on anything other than a demented idea of thrift, as alluded to in post #13884.
Provide examples please of real people hurt by regulations being adopted or revised too quickly.
And Keystone XL doesn’t count. Since I’ve been using ancient Rome references, here’s another one. Would failing to conquer Egypt being “hurting Romans” because they wouldn’t get all that free Egyptian corn in tribute?
Just because you aren’t getting this particular pipeline, which is a *tiny *amount of fuel compared to the global market, in an era of cheap energy, and indeed of technological advances leading to a variety of competitive energy provision systems, does not mean people are being “hurt” in any sense worth moralizing over.
OK, now they’re just trolling us.
More importantly, how does a cop know?
Obviously, if the bad guys aren’t black, the test wasn’t truly reenacted under the most favorable of circumstances. :rolleyes:
Kentucky State Senator C.B. Embry Jrintroduces a bill that will allow a student who catches a transgender person in the ‘wrong’ bathroom $2500 in damages from the school.
Then the student has to explain why they were checking out the transgender person’s equipment.
Richer yet:
Utah Representative Jacob Chaffetz has decided the room in which he shall be chairing the House Oversight Committee will be more pleasant without all those portraits of past committee chairs. Cue tizzies. I do enjoy seeing critters chasing their tails, but it is also quite disturbing to learn that Issa (cf. this thread’s OP) has a fan club. Just, ewww.
Just to be clear, the stupid idea is Issa’s, not Chaffetz’s, right?
The stupid idea is that it should be an issue.
Yes, but we’re talking politicians here. And Issa is more of a glory seeker than most, which makes this a serious affront to his ego.
Chaffetz is kind of a maverick, he doesn’t care for the leadership of either party, so I’m sure he had his own personal reasons for wanting to get those other faces off that wall.
Bobby Jindal doubles down on Muslim ‘no-go zones’ in Europe
No, Chaffetz’ action is stupid, Issa’s reaction is simply predictable.
He doesn’t want them to see what he’s doing?
Hopefully Jindal educates himself soon on this subject. Daniel Pipes, about as extreme as you get on the issue of Muslims, actually visited a couple of these zones, and said this:
I’m reluctant to call Jindal stupid over it though, because respectable media sources such as Investors Business Daily have reported that there are “no-go” zones. It’s a myth, but you can’t expect people to not believe ANY myths. Especially when your side is producing so much “information” on the subject without much in the way of a rebuttal from the other side. Until now, at least.
People in general, no. I think we should hold public officials and candidates to a higher standard.
Yeah, I think the stupid is in season now. Blooming like that red plankton.
According to incoming Texas Governor Greg Abbott, cities have become Big Government, the people need the little state government to protect them from the Cities’ evil regulations. Denton, for example, should not be allowed to ban fracking within the city. And Dallas has imposed an intolerable burden on junkyards by requiring them to have a permit.
Because the R mantra of “local control” means whatever they want it to mean, whenever they want it to mean whatever they want it to mean at the time.
Not to climb all over the quoted poster, but I’m not at all reluctant to call Jindal either a fucking idiot or an especially clumsy demagogue, as I would anyone who promotes this utter poppycock.
Let’s just give this notion the slightest thought: France, the UK and few other European nations supposedly have areas where national laws don’t apply, and “sharia law” does. What mechanism is in place to hear any legal issues that come up? In France, if not French judges who have apparently abrogated their adherence to the French legal system, who adjudicates these cases? Who enforces any rulings handed down? Are there officially-recognized, or unofficial, “sharia” police? How is it that the highly popular, hard-right, anti-immigrant party in France (the Front National), is not trumpeting from the rooftops this sneer at French sovereign status (they aren’t, I’ve checked)? They certainly don’t hesitate to point out the same when done by the European Union.
If that’s too complicated, how could it be that a country that deemed muslim headscarves as ‘religious symbols’ and banned them in public, at the same time would turn a blind eye to such a wholesale refusal to adhere to French law?
Sheesh.
In practice, we hold them to a much lower one. Look at any average politician and they’ve usually got tons of half truths, mostly falses, totally falses, and pants on fire statements on the fact check sites and they almost never own up to any of them. Even the most well respected politicians would be relegated to the Pit if they were Dopers.
So what’s to stop a transgender student from making a deal with people to be “caught” on purpose and split the money?
I didn’t read the links, but I would guess . . .
There are penalties against the transgender student also, for using the “wrong” bathroom.