Stupid Republican idea of the day

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As should be obvious to any thinking individual, these people are not supporters of rape. :rolleyes: How utterly ridiculous. This is the type of inflammatory, over-the-top rhetoric that has caused so much of this country to be at each others' throats and has made it virtually impossible for the two sides to come to agreement on anything.

The people voting against it are simply people who see no need to get the government involved when rape is already illegal. Anyone who is raped can bring charges and have their case heard in court. And if a company interferes or attempts to prevent it for whatever reason, they can be sued.

In other words, remedies already exist.

Democrats want to get government involved in everything possible; Republicans want to keep government out of everything possible. It's as simple as that.
 
dropzone said:
Not to be pedantic, though I love to do it, that's an "accent acute." A tilde is the "squigly line" (~) over a letter. Spanish does not use it over a vowel.

ETA: That's "acute accent." Funny how much French one can pick up while still not speaking enough French to order lunch. :(
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Strange, I speak spanish and we always called it a tilde
or an accent interchangeably, yesterday a fellow nitpicker friend told me it was properly called tilde, now you say is not...

Intriguing....

To the wikitubes Robin!.

Ok, according to the english wikipedia you are right, and according to the spanish wikipedia we are both right.

Also according to the english wikipedia: "The tilded "n" ("
 
Ludovic said:
Yeah, it operates at a loss except when it doesn't. Sort of like airlines. But all in all I don't mind the losses the past year or so, as I'd prefer to (eventually) have to subsidize the usps when it runs out of money (which it hasn't yet) than to continue to receive junk mail (which I did until last year, even though I was and am on the no junk mail list,) even if junk mail did let the USPS operate at a profit for much of the recent past. (It clogs up my mailbox)
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UPS and other mail carriers deliver packages. That is the profit making part of mail delivery. They do not compete with the post office in mail delivery. They could not do it.
 
Oh, damn. It is getting hard to keep up:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/joe-wilson-says-obama-has-put-the-lives-of-americans-at-risk-due-to-h1n1-vaccine-shortage.php
 
Starving Artist said:
As should be obvious to any thinking individual, these people are not supporters of rape. :rolleyes: How utterly ridiculous. This is the type of inflammatory, over-the-top rhetoric that has caused so much of this country to be at each others' throats and has made it virtually impossible for the two sides to come to agreement on anything.
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Of course you're right. I assume you felt the same way about Palin and her "death panels" bullshit. Right?

Starving Artist said:
The people voting against it are simply people who see no need to get the government involved when rape is already illegal. Anyone who is raped can bring charges and have their case heard in court. And if a company interferes or attempts to prevent it for whatever reason, they can be sued.

In other words, remedies already exist.
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I take it you didn't read the cites.
 
Diogenes the Cynic said:
Still something the GOP needs to be concerned about and try to put a stop to. They've got an uphill battle as it is without having to battle the tag of a majority lunatic party.
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Unless they're seeking election in a majority lunatic country, which I am becoming increasingly worried is the case.
 
It's not so stupid. He'll just outreach by SPEAAAAKING SLOOOWLY AND IN A LOUUUUD VOIIICE. And offer them glass beads, tinware and trinkets in exchange for votes.
 
As usual, I have absolutely nothing of import or interest to add here, except that I think the RNC Chairman really ought to be referred to as "Michael Steele but not the one who was in The Runaways and The Bangles, the other one" because I keep getting confused.

Yes, I am blonde, why do you ask?
 
ArchiveGuy said:
And yet another racist e-mail from a GOP elected official's office makes the rounds (with your standard "Oops! Sent it to the wrong people!" excuse)
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White eyes on a black background, is that an established racist meme?

(I'm not saying it isn't, this is just the first I've heard of it in that context.)
 
THe actually poll responses were

"I agree with whatever Rush thinks"
"I amnot sujre if I agree with what Rush thinks."
"I do not agree with what Rush thinks."
 
Sounds like Rush is admitting Republicans have no sense of accountability, and are eager to blame others for their own character defects.
 
They don't compete with the post office because they're not allowed to. I don't know if they should or should not be allowed to (leaning toward should, as principles of free enterprise trump the macroeconomic advantage to natural monopolies in certain circumstances.*) But the question is unanswered as to whether or not they'd be able to consistently beat the post office for regular mail if they were allowed to. While I agree that they most likely would not be able to do it, the post office is able to do so (just not every year.) Even when their loss margin exists, it's nothing compared to what the for profit companies would experience in the same year if you look at what they currently charge for service.

* i.e. the theory that certain markets just are not money making no matter what entrepreneurs think. Competition would just lead to wasted infrastructure and capital expenses and leave society with a net cost due to the labor and materials involved in creating the infrastructure, according to that theory. While this is the sort of thinking that got us the relatively efficient and inexpensive Postal Service, this is also the sort of thinking that gets us the Cable Monopolies, which no one, even myself, would defend as customer oriented and efficient.)
 
Frostillicus said:
Oh, damn. It is getting hard to keep up:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/joe-wilson-says-obama-has-put-the-lives-of-americans-at-risk-due-to-h1n1-vaccine-shortage.php
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So to summarize: The government put American lives at risk by not providing health care in this country.
Oh, and the government will put American lives at risk if it provides health care in this country.
 
Now, now, we haven't even discussed the GOP's alternate budget proposal:
Later, Norah O'Donnell asked Mike Pence to provide basic details, to no avail. Pence continued to talk about details as forthcoming. O'Donnell sort of thought that having continually criticized the administration for projecting a long-term deficit figure, that it was absurd that the GOP couldn't even offer their own projection for the sake of comparison. Pence suggested that the very fact that the GOP plan was getting criticized constituted "progress."

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"After 27 days, the best House Republicans could come up with is a 19-page pamphlet that does not include a single real budget proposal or estimate. There are more numbers in my last sentence than there are in the entire House GOP budget."

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Robert Gibbs offered: "There's one more picture of a windmill than there are charts of numbers. And there's exactly one picture of a windmill."
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Getting back to the bottomless well of Republican stupid, I present the latest GOP effort at attracting more people of color to its "big tent".

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_redneck_video_lawmaker
 
Kalhoun said:
And this bitch had the nerve to say all this while Shepard's mother sat in the chamber? What the fuck kind of people DO that? What the fuck kind of brain damage are we talking about here?
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For a little break from Starving Artist babbling on to himself about Clintonian conspiracy theories, Matthew Shepard's mother was on Rachel Maddow, responding to Congresswoman Foxx, who kinda sorta "apologized," saying she "misspoke."


Starving Artist said:
The big lie propagated around here is that Bush, knowing full well that Hussein didn't have any WMD, lied and told the American people that he did and that going to war against Iraq was therefore justified and necessary.

To date I have seen no probative (i.e., proving) evidence that he knew or did any such thing,
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Look up "Joe Wilson" (which, if you're the kind who follows links just to see where they will lead, will also lead you to "Valerie Plame" which makes for some crackin' interesting reading).
 
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