Let’s give credit where credit is due. Thanks in no small part to Republicans’ tireless defense of freedom, when you find yourself disappeared into a CIA black site because your ditthohead neighbor swears he heard you talkin’ Ay-rab on the tellyphone, you can be assured that in between beatings, waterboardings, and testicular electrification, you will be allowed a modicum of salt in your daily gruel.
It just seems that the jack asses are getting more numerous. How many lone jackasses does it take, before you have a herd of them?
I like that the guy who whines about Those Dirty Hippies making the US all rude and liberal in other threads is thanking whoever he thanks that he’s around to enjoy the last vestiges of American Freedom in this thread.
Raise the blood pressure of my paternal family (including yours truly) above “clinically dead” levels. Yeah, I’m a weirdo whose Doctor’s Orders include “don’t be shy with the salt and keep salty snacks handy.”
I also have a strong suspicion that the famous link between mediterranean diet and not-too-high blood pressure may actually be a link between that gene and not-too-high blood pressure, diet be damned.
This thread has actually been enlightening specifically because of the partisan politics. When I first read the OP my initial thought was “this bill is fucking ludicrous.” I never questioned what political party the bill’s creator was in. It never even occurred to me to ask the question, honestly.
So when I found out that the guy’s a Democrat, my head slipped few times in the direction of my desk as my forehead made contact with it…but it didn’t change my opinion whatsoever. The bill is fucking ludicrous.
Looking through this thread, through three pages and counting, you’ll see 100% agreement on this issue. The bill is stupid and this guy is stupid for trying to draft legislation around the idea of banning salt. If you were to post this as the kickoff to “Stupid Democrat idea of the day” you’d get no objection from me.
100% agreement from Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Anarchists, and everyone inbetween. No waivering. No word dancing. Just agreement.
So my question is this: when’s the last time that’s happened at the other end of the spectrum? When’s the last time that a stupid Republican idea, even a really really really stupid Republican idea, has gotten 100% agreement on its stupidity? When’s the last time that’s happened when the vast majority of the people posting in the thread identify as belonging to the same party as the stupid person we’re making fun of? In short, when’s the last time people could honestly separate political party from personal opinion of an act?
Can’t think of a specific example, but I’m sure there were a few Ann Coulter threads where no one defended her. Or the abortion doctor killer thread.
I’m also wondering if we’d get any support for a DOMA constitutional amendment at the federal level around here.
I’m just a bill.
Yes, I’m only a bill.
And I’m sitting here on Capitol Hill.
Well, it’s a long, long journey
To the capital city.
It’s a long, long wait
While I’m sitting in committee,
But I know I’ll be a law someday
At least I hope and pray that I will,
But today I am still just a bill.
ZOMG! Turrurist!
So no more fresh baked bread or pastries?
No more sea salt crusted baguettes?
Oh fuck!
You know what that means? The sea shell things that replace toliet paper are next! I am sure I’ll never figure those fuckers out!
And wait, I just got fucking fined 2, nope, 3 times for cursing!
I do, but people in our (mostly) free country have the right to not say them or stand up for it if they wish. I don’t agree with that, because I agree with the principle of “liberty and justice for all” even if its imperfectly applied in reality, but I admire the kid for doing what he did. That’s his right.
I’ll just use the citations to wipe with, I can swear pretty good too 
I have a proposal. This is from an article on the Republican victories in Texas schools textbook requirements, on a section on world history:
Starving Artist, care to analyze this one? I am supremely confident that Shodan and Bricker, despite my disagreements with them, will condemn this as ludicrous. If there’s to be a holdout from the right, someone who will refuse to support the Democrats on the committee in this specific instance, I have only one guess who it’d be.
I recall a fair number of at least half hearted defenses of the latter. Along the vein of “Well, of course I deplore what he did, but it’s perfectly understandable that someone would do something like that if he considered abortion murder.”
I am now picturing Gandalf on the floor of the legislature. “THIS SHALL NOT PASS!!”
But Kimstu’s point was forcing kids to stand for the pledge. Not offering them the ability to say it. In which case, sitting would no longer be his right. Moreover, it would be a poor implementation of the idea of “liberty.”
The Gandalf thing would be pure win 
As for Coulter, I seem to remember several conservatives asking basically this:
“Why do you guys get so worked up about her, when you already know she’s crazy as a shit house mouse and full of shit besides?”
At least that’s how I remember it going. They were not defending her, they were saying she’s crazy.
I actually had this thought while typing up my post, but opted for the gratuitous insults instead.
I remember more “Well, you guys have Michael Moore/Al Franken/Keith Olbermann/etc.” tu-quoqueness, but there may have been both.
When I saw the OP my first thought was Taco Bell must have won the war.
You gotta love the idea of someone’s liberty being taken away because they refused to pledge to /defend/support/whatever the concept of liberty in the first place.
Nobody’s liberty was taken away.
Its ironic though, that’s for sure.
You’re a Luddite idiot.