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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Instead of helping Flint, Michigan republicans pass a SODOMY LAW
.
For fuck's sake!
edited 9th Feb '16 1:23:34 AM by TheHandle
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# Republican Priorities # Keep government small enough to fit in your bedroom
The only thing that could accomplish is being an intentional poison pill to get the entire law struck down in the courts.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Republicans: "We don't care what's in the pipe, only where you put it."
Seriously, can't we just assign a guy to each politcian whose only job is to dope-slap them if they try to do something stupid?
edited 9th Feb '16 7:44:20 AM by DrunkenNordmann
We learn from history that we do not learn from historyTo get back to how religion and politics interact, I don't think the nonreligious are growing in appreciable levels in the United States. A good number of Democrats are actually conservative religious who reject the Republicans for different reasons than religion. For example, many Mexican-Americans are devout Roman Catholics and many Arab-Americans are devout Muslims, but they certainly aren't going to side with the Republicans given that party's expressed desires in regards to Mexicans and Muslims. Likewise, African-Americans, both religious and nonreligious; conservative and liberal, overwhelmingly support the Democrats as well for a similar reason.
In reality, religion doesn't play all that big of a factor in voting compared to what the political party can do for the particular voter's primary issues.
edited 9th Feb '16 10:01:14 AM by GameGuruGG
Wizard Needs Food BadlyLooks like you have a third party candidate running.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCyzdD0vYOw
Canada
edited 9th Feb '16 10:16:37 AM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.On the Michigan bill, I'm just gonna copy what I said in Yack Fest's LGBT thread:
The bill in question (SB 219) is against animal cruelty, the whole "banning anal" thing comes from it's use of the existing sodomy law (which already includes the "with mankind or with any animal" line) in Michigan's penal code (MCL 750.158. Part of the bill amends 750.158 with clearer wording and adds subsection 2:
6 THE COURT SHALL, AS A CONDITION OF PROBATION, ORDER THE PERSON
7 CONVICTED NOT TO OWN OR POSSESS AN ANIMAL FOR A PERIOD OF AT LEAST
8 5 YEARS AFTER THE DATE OF SENTENCING OR THE DATE OF RELEASE FROM
9 INCARCERATION, WHICHEVER IS LATER, AND MAY ORDER PERMANENT
10 RELINQUISHMENT OF ANIMAL OWNERSHIP.
Obviously, the "with mankind" part of 750.158 is unenforceable per Lawrence v. Texas.
Oh and the bill passed the Michigan Senate, but still has to get through the state's House.
Interesting discussion about the primary
with statewide journalists who actually know NH, as opposed to the D.C. echo chamber.
Those are just a few of things the pundits and candidates are getting wrong about New Hampshire as we head into its first-in-the-nation primary on Tuesday. In a roundtable interview moderated by Politico’s senior politics editor Charlie Mahtesian, five of the journalists who follow New Hampshire politics most closely revealed more about what's really going on on-the-ground in the Granite State and what we in Washington are missing.
Middle America is putting itself back together.
Goddam hicks are actually trying to make the best of a bad situation. Backwards imbeciles. They should learn from enlightened people like us and bitch about everything on the internet
An interesting fact, while most people see the country itself has headed for the shitter, they are more optimistic about their local situation.
Judge Rudolph Contreras said the government is taking an “unreasonably long” time processing the messages and is already more than a week overdue on making them all public — and said he didn’t like being told speeding up could hurt national security.
The State Department says there are still some 3,700 messages to be released, and it has asked for a monthlong extension beyond the Jan. 29 deadline Judge Contreras initially set.
The department said it broke the deadline because it forgot about some 4,000 messages that needed to be reviewed for classified or private information by other agencies. Those agencies are processing the messages and some have been finished, but Judge Contreras said the department needs to explain by the end of this week how it bungled the operation so badly.
The judge said he will order at least some emails to be released by Feb. 18, and showed little patience with the department’s delays.
“To state the obvious, these documents have a lot of interest and the timing is important,” Judge Contreras said.
Judge orders State Dept. to speed up Clinton emails: ‘Unreasonably long’
Donald Trump continued to hold his commanding lead with 33 percent support of likely GOP voters in the Granite State, American Research Group pollsters said.
But the all-important runner-up race appeared to be leaning just a bit toward Kasich at 17 percent, ahead of Marco Rubio at 14 percent, Iowa winner Ted Cruz with 10 percent, Jeb Bush at 9 percent and Chris Christie at 8 percent.
Kasich is not moderate. He only looks like it compared to the rest of the field. Besides being a strong anti-abortionist, he is a hardcore goldbug, believing in a fixed-money system that would completely break our economy.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

He has worked with Sanders
before.
They commissioned Gerald Friedman — an economist at the University of Massachusetts who previously analyzed Rep. John Conyers's (D-MI) very similar single-payer bill, HR 676 — to analyze how his plan would affect a typical household. Friedman's analysis can be found here.
Just a head's up.
edited 8th Feb '16 8:40:54 PM by Nihlus1