I wish I’d posted that.
NOW he wants to ban pornography by bringing obscenity cases against pornographic companies including cable and satellite providers.
Next we’ll hear about how every home should have an altar. :rolleyes:
And here’s another item on the ever-growing list of things Santorum wants to ban: teleprompters.
What happened to the Republicans who wanted less government?
Yeah, when someone quotes something someone else wrote down to me, I’ll inform them that it should be illegal. That way they have to rely on making shit up like Santorum instead of religion.
History tells us this statement just tripled the odds he will be spotted leaving a pornography store after a 30-45 minute visit. Unfortunately for him, voting is done in private (Pity people can’t also pray in private like Jesus told 'em) like proably 99% of porno viewing. It would be fun to get 10,000 random Americans to vote on the issue and see how the actual votes compare to their spoken opinions on the matter.
It’s a savvy move. Only a tiny number of Americans like looking at porn.
Well, on the positive side the internet will run a whole lot faster once 90% of its content is gone.
Tell me this, if English wasn’t meant to be the official language of America, then why did God write the Bible in English?
I haven’t gotten my porn from TV since I was 12 years old and trying to catch a corner of a boob around all the scrambles.
That’s “Olde” English to be precise. The language God spoke. But he didn’t speak this language.
Quoth House M.D., if they took the porn off the internet, there would only be one website left and it would be called www. bringbacktheporn.com
Quick, somebody buy that domain now. It’ll go fast!
This is not only true, it also made me Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there.
Louisiana had a non-English-speaking-majority when it was admitted as a state (http://www.louisianabicentennial2012.com/page.php?page=Louisiana-Statehood-History).
Pornography, political advertising, religious fundamentalism, spam, and your deuced “quarry” posts, are among the greatest challenges to the concept of free speech.
One thing he misses is that once a state is a state, that is once it’s admitted and has seated a delegation in Congress, it can* then* proceed to set up whatever official languages it feels like for their everyday business.
For practical reasons of course any state will use English when dealing with the Feds and other states. Guess what: We do that already.
And his coming here and telling it to our faces is not really brave, it’s a cheap way to score points with his reactionary followers at home, knowing that we have no Electoral Votes to punish him with later.
In any case there’s a a difference between mandating* a common language of communication* and mandating cultural assimilation itself – you can implement the former but the latter either happens or it doesn’t and there’s little you can do about it. Cultural assimilation as a precondition for statehood has never really been tested from a modern US perspective – mostly because at the time 35 of the post-13 states were admitted (1790s to 1910s) it was a matter of course that English-speaking White settlers would be in charge and who cared what the previous populations thought.
When I was a young Catholic school boy, the nuns used to have a daily inspections, where the boys were all expected to be able to produce a comb and a handkerchief and the girls, a comb, handkerchief, and chapel veil. There were demerits for missing items, but I don’t seem to recall any particular reward for months of perfect compliance (not that I ever managed it). I imagine all a kid got out of it (besides a set of beneficial organizational habits) was a sort of smug self-satisfaction.
Sen. Santorum’s quote above leads me to suspect that he had his comb and handkerchief EVERY DAY.
Well, a teleprompter only displays words from an author who is not the speaker using it, and there is no way a person can give a speech by memory unless he’s the creator.
So it looks like a rock solid argument.
Not to mention, there is absolutely no way whatsoever to read from a ghostwritten speech without a prompter. It’s just not done, and has never been done, nor will it ever be done. The current human technology doesn’t support it.
We could if we had some form of flat, bright coloured medium that we could contrast with using dark pigments, and invented pictographic systems to convey meaning using said pigments ; but like the Philosopher’s Stone people have been talking about it for thousands of years without ever producing anything concrete.
Is this the place for funny Santorum headlines? I saw this on MSNBC today:
“Porn industry to Rick Santorum: Butt out”
Pretty sure that was actually Dr. Cox from Scrubs.