Mozilla's chairwoman Mitchell Baker issued the usual tortured justification:
"Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech," Baker said. "And you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard."
I heard a lot of this stuff during my free-speech battles in Canada. The country's chief censor, the late Jennifer Lynch, QC, was willing to concede that free speech was certainly a right, but it was merely one in a whole range of competing rights - such as "equality" and "diversity" - that needed to be "balanced". What the "balancing" boils down to is that you get fired if you are an apostate from the new progressive groupthink. Underneath the agonized prose, Mitchell Baker is a bare-knuckled thug.
And thus the sins of the past are recycled with new labels. Bravo.
"Maybe you say it helps (Obamacare), but it really helps the small businessman," said Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., one of several physician-lawmakers among Republicans and an advocate of repeal.
No member of the House GOP leadership has publicly hailed the fix, which was tucked, at Republicans' request, into legislation preventing a cut in payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients.
It is unclear how many members of the House rank and file knew of it because the legislation was passed by a highly unusual voice vote without debate.
Feel the awesome subversion of representative democracy that is the Amorphous Care Act.
And if you don't support the right of all workers to seek union representation, then you don't support the right for any workers to choose union representation.
Covered here.
Very clever. I approve.
Life sucks sometimes.
You know?
So...what's been going on?
Abstract
Objectives:
To determine whether parachutes are effective in preventing major trauma related to gravitational challenge.
Design:
Systematic review of randomised controlled trials.
Data sources:
Medline, Web of Science, Embase, and the Cochrane Library databases; appropriate internet sites and citation lists.
Study selection:
Studies showing the effects of using a parachute during free fall.
Main outcome measure:
Death or major trauma, defined as an injury severity score > 15.
Results:
We were unable to identify any randomised controlled trials of parachute intervention.
In late April 2013, the American Federation of Teachers-Wisconsin chapter gathered for a post-election "workshop" on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among those scheduled to present that day was Mike McCabe of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, to explain how big-spending special interests "conspire to prevent government decisions from reflecting the will of the people." McCabe's presentation promised to include a discussion of how "Super PACs, dark money and unlimited election spending" erode "democracy's health."
Perhaps lacking the most in McCabe's presentation was any sense of irony or self-awareness. According to one recent report, AFT has been the 12th-largest contributor to candidates and outside spending groups in America over the last quarter-century, shelling out $37 million to support Democratic candidates almost exclusively. Further, WDC is a liberal lobbying group that advocates for progressive reforms while refusing to disclose its donors, and McCabe himself is a registered lobbyist.
Private sector unions are a matter of free assembly. Public sector unions are a godforsaken mutiny that even the generally wrongheaded FDR understood were a lousy idea.
No more witty rejoinders today. Fustakrakich, stay beautiful. Damn_registrars, borrow a sense of humor from somewhere, at least for the duration of your Slashdot sessions.
Pagan gods always seem to have the munchies:
So after Justice Breyer hinted at the nub of what the real question at stake here is, Justice Kennedy bored down and Dean Chemerinsky had to admit something mainstream media has been feverishly trying to avoid--disclosing that these cases are abortion cases much more than they are about birth control. If the Court rules against Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood here, there's no limit to what the government can mandate closely-held corporations have to do, including providing for the termination of life.
Remember: the rights of the pregnant female always trump the rights of the one she may carry. Because #ShutUp, or something.
It is now completely legal, for the rich to buy any government they like, in America.
In his majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts said that the limits, "do little, if anything, to address that concern, while seriously restricting participation in the democratic process."
Where "democracy" is equated with "expendable surplus wealth".
Well, the veil is off this bitch now.
CORPORATION==PERSON
DOLLAR==SPEECH
WEALTH==LIBERTY
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- A.J. Perlis