I don't believe it was a lie. That wouldn't make sense. I was already a customer and I told them I wasn't even going to move to that house, if I couldn't get internet. I stressed that point emphatically to them. Misinforming me cost them money too.

Before I bought my house, I went down to the Comcast office to confirm that I would be able to get broadband there. Multiple people told me yes, but I still wanted to speak to a manger, just to be sure. And they did assure me, over and over again. So I bought the house, moved in, and then they finally told me it wasn't available yet.

Since I was doing software consulting from home, at the time, I made it clear to them that I wasn't going to move there if I couldn't get it. I ended up going over a year before they decided to turn it on (the wiring was all there, it was a new development). It really hurt my business, at the time. I'm still bitter about it to this day. I couldn't have been any more thorough in checking before moving in. They are absolutely incompetent.

No they didn't. Pearl harbor was bombed by the pilots of the Imperial Japanese Navy, most of whom died at Midway. The civilians of Hiroshima and Nagasaki did not bomb Pearl Harbor. Indirect collective revenge is not a good reason to kill 200,000 people.

Have they actually denied participation to anyone?

Neither of those organizations exist. Do you have a better example?

People like you are why the Libertarians will never get more than 1% of the vote.

The Libertarian party has a lot of good ideas, and it would be great if a few of them got elected, so their voices could be heard. But that will not happen if you continue to get hung up on stupid ideological arguments that you can't possibly win. We are not going to bring back Jim Crow in the name of ideological purity, and you alienate a lot of reasonable people when you advocate that. Learn to pick your battles.

Ultimatums to elected officials tend to backfire. The last thing they want to for their base to perceive that they "caved in". A more subtle approach, that would allow this bill to quietly die in some committee, would be more effective.

Correct. Under the law, he doesn't have to. He can sell doughnuts, cupcakes, danishes, etc. instead. But if he offers wedding cakes to the public, then he has to offer them to the entire public.

No, a Muslim photographer should not be forced to photograph a gay wedding, because he always has the option of getting out of the wedding photography business. He can photograph dogs or nature scenes instead.

The Constitution also gives the government the power to regulate commerce. The courts have ruled that absolute freedom of association does not apply to commercial services offered to the pubic. You are free to disagree, but unless you are appointed to the Supreme Court, your opinion doesn't matter much.

Actually, they do. Half of all marriages end in divorce, but more two thirds of all people that get married don't get divorced. How is that possible? Many people get married and divorced repeatedly, and that throws the numbers way off. Second marriages have a 75% chance of divorce.

If the consumers like it, couldn't they raise prices? It might also allow the early adopter to grab market share until the competitors ketch up.
If your condiment bottle does something cool that the competitor's doesn't, I'll buy it and pay a premium.

The American people were open to a negotiated surrender. They were war weary, and not real enthusiastic about seeing a million of their sons, brothers and husbands die in Japan. Troops returning from Europe were sent home on leave, and when ordered to return to prepare for the invasion, many of them refused. They felt they had done their share in Europe. In light of these facts, Truman had discussed a negotiated end to the war with his advisers as a fall back in case the nukes didn't work.

Business owners should be able to "deny services to individuals" based on whatever criteria that the business owner chooses. Yes, that includes race, gender, hair color, sexual orientation or whatever else the owner wants to dream up. We shouldn't need to argue this on the basis of "religious freedom". It should be about "freedom" in the most general sense. Same with the "Hobby Lobby" case. Forget religion. Government has no legitimate authority to dictate the terms of a health benefits package that an employer offers to their employees.

False dichotomy. Nukes and a conventional invasion were not the only alternatives. The Japanese had already indicated that they were open to a negotiated surrender. The only condition that they considered nonnegotiable was the status of the emperor. But after they surrendered unconditionally, we let them keep the emperor anyway.