Well it is Alaska. He probably got elected because he advocates killing the homeless. You know a good 'Christian ’
From helicopters.
Only for an hour.
As a Republican I’d replace “Sell destruction” with “liberation” and add “from fucktards” after party. An assist on the clean up from Democrats (in the form of potentially helpinh keep Boehner Speaker) seems a little light in the form of payment for dumping Southern Democrats in our front lawn a couple decades ago. We have to take some blame for accepting them openly…seriously Jesse Helms. :smack: We certainly can’t expect you to take them back. It’s time they got marginalized again though.
Retain? Retain?!? Although I usually do humor myself with the assumption that many internet comments lean more towards trolling than statement of political position. I’m not sure that’s a more optimistic statement though.
Bryan Fischer wants all of the 2016 Republican candidates to swear that they believe “homosexual conduct” is a choice.
Will Bryan Fischer just come out of the closet already?
But it’s such a comfortable closet. I hear tell it has a hot tub and a pool boy.
a sort of, what, water closet?
OK, how did we all miss this? Republicans, those avid proponents of states rights, apparently *love *the federal government when it comes to controlling a woman’s right to choose.
Rep. Jeff Duncan (R, SC) has introduced a bill (H.R. 492), that will force very woman in the country who wants to have an abortion to first have an ultrasound, this under the guise of making sure their consent to the abortion is informed.
A fine opinion they have of the female half of the race. They apparently don’t think we understand what’s going on with either a pregnancy or an abortion.
So far it’s only gotten to the “Introduced” stage. Here’s hoping it dies in committee.
I, for one, require that Good Republicans legislate morality for me. Otherwise, how would I know what’s right?
Florida Officials Banned The Term ‘Climate Change’ and ‘Global Warming’.
North Carolina banned the term a couple of years ago, when beaches were being eroded.
Republicans being fuckheads:
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Because fuck America, that’s why. Party First!!!
If it helps, the FCC decision that broadband is a public utility also makes it somewhat easier for a newcomer to compete. Apparently if you’re a public utility, you can use the same poles, conduits, etc. to run your cables that the other utilities are using, rather than having to build all that from scratch.
Also, the FCC is moving towards giving approval to municipalities to create their own broadband networks, overruling state laws that had been blocking them. So to at least some extent, competition is a-coming, thanks to the FCC.
Can you imagine the reaction if the Democrats had done something similar under Bush? If they had actually written an open letter to an ostensible enemy actually repudiating the President’s foreign policy, and threatening to reverse it once they regained power?
The devil is in the details, though. I’ll have to see how it shakes out before i’m satisfied that it’s enough.
That is definitely a step in the right direction, but again, i think it will need more than that. I think, for one thing, that they need to push the current monopolists and oligopolists (depending on the market) of the industry to compete with one another, or threaten to regulate their prices. If there were true competition, i wouldn’t be asking for price regulation, but in many major markets in the US there is almost literally no competition at all.
I live in an urban neighborhood in America’s 8th most populous city. It’s a comfortable neighborhood, with plenty of professional families, and with an average household income above the California and the San Diego median. It’s just a few miles from downtown, 15 minutes from the airport, is served by a decent bus system, and has multiple restaurants and bars within a short walk.
And yet, in this thriving neighborhood in a large, modern city, in the wealthiest country in the world, i have exactly one provider of proper broadband internet to choose from. One. For me, it’s Cox or nothing.
Time Warner Cable does operate in San Diego, but the city, in its wisdom, allowed the two companies to split the city geographically. If you’re south of the San Diego River, you have Cox; if you’re north of the river, you have TWC. No price comparisons or competition allowed. In some areas of the city, i could check AT&T to price compare their UVerse system with Cox, but where i am the best internet connection i can get from AT&T is 1.5 Mbps DSL. In the modern world, that might as well be dial-up. With Cox, i’m on their third-tier system and still get 50 Mbps officially, and in reality i comfortably get 25-40.
Luckily for me, Cox has been great in terms of speed and reliability, but their prices keep creeping up and up, and there’s absolutely nothing i can do about it, because there is literally no-one else i can go to. I can’t threaten to leave Cox in order to get a break on my bill, because they know that i have nowhere else to go
Google is going to start ranking articles for accuracy. Climate-change deniers are pissed. One says, one actually says, “Let the public decide what’s the truth.”
So he is not content to let the public decide which search engine they want to use? If the public doesn’t like truth rankings, they will use Bing. That how the free market works, right?
Of course he put in the weasel word conduct which makes it technically correct, in the same way that heterosexual conduct is a choice, or ever leaving the house is a choice.
This way they can imply that heterosexual orientation is a choice, but still be able to weasel out of it if they get called on it.
You’re right, and I’d say upfront that I think neither of these things is enough, just that they’re steps in the right direction.
Best outcome: one or the other of these developments makes a difference in enough places that the cable companies have to lower their rates somewhat in most metro areas just to head off the possibility of either competition or municipal broadband before it becomes a reality. But unless Google decides to aggressively enter the broadband market (aided by this decision), I don’t see meaningful competition becoming widespread.
This engenders an ominous thought in my brain. The Constitution, in the enumeration of powers granted to Congress, includes the power to declare war. However, it appears to be largely silent on the mechanics of the process.
How much of Congress is necessary to draft and enact a declaration of war? Is it a specific minimum percentage of each chamber? Are they constitutionally able to declare that a state of war exists without the President asking them to? I’m pretty sure the President doesn’t have a veto over declarations of war.
And is this Congress stupid enough to declare war on Iran, just to spite President Obama and throw a spanner into the negotiations?