Comment Re:where's the money?! (Score 1) 213
Autistic Coprolite Miners.
Comment Re:Bottom line (Score 1) 44
A pass for, or to do, what exactly?
Um, to. .
He hasn't exactly done much since. Not that he did a whole lot before...
So, exactly how "[absurd" was my "analogy]", please?
So then are you done calling for impeachment?
As I was explaining to my dad during the daily call on the way home, the way politics works, you don't bring anything to a vote unless you know what the outcome will be. While, in a absolute sense, I don't doubt that orders of magnitude more information exists than would be needful to demonstrate "high crimes and misdemeanors"
Contrary to some less than informed opinion, "high crimes and misdemeanors"--the legal standard for impeachment--refers not to indictable criminal offenses but to profound breaches of the public trust by high-ranking officials. Once the standard is understood, it becomes easy to see that the president and his underlings have committed numerous, readily provable impeachable offenses. Yet, even if a president commits a hundred high crimes and misdemeanors, impeachment is a non-starter unless the public is convinced that the president should be removed from power. The real question is political: Are his lawlessness and unfitness so thoroughgoing that we can no longer trust him with the awesome power of the chief executive?
Thus, November can be reviewed as a No-Talent Rodeo Clown Referendum: the same fickle electorate that returned Pres'ent Obama to the White House could just as easily. .
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Comment Re:where's the money?! (Score 1) 213
Ain't Chargin' Much
And Code's Making
Amazingly Classy Millionaires.
And Code's Making
Amazingly Classy Millionaires.
Comment Them Crooked Vultures (Score 1) 1
John Paul Jones on bass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U9_QM4HhIE&list=PLgL-iwzsjGiykZ0fQA9iRkHGSa5DH8alt Out of frickin' control, man.
Comment Bottom line (Score 1) 44
The voters gave #OccupyResoluteDesk a pass in 2012. Until such time as the voters give the GOP such a commanding majority that substantial action is possible, all the impeachment talk is just so much hormonal whinging. What really must terrify the GOP is that, given such power, the silent conservative majority would expect them to accomplish some no-kidding reform. Which is why the GOP prefers the sweet passive aggression of letting the IRS crush the Tea Parties.
To your "Health Insurance Industry Bailout Act of 2010" point, you may find this interesting.
To your "Health Insurance Industry Bailout Act of 2010" point, you may find this interesting.
Comment You so funny! (Score 1) 58
When you actually explore the project, you'll quickly learn that you just made the quintessential ignorant redneck statement. Stay beautiful!
Comment Re:What's your point? (Score 1) 29
Look at what you wrote:
It requires no intellect, and certainly no "morality" of any kind. It is a natural predator and prey relationship. And all attempts to regulate it have been quite farcical at best. Can't expect much different when sociopathy is the dominant trait of those we support.
Examples of cooperative ecosystems abound. Indeed, things veer into "sociopathy" when resources are constrained, which is an odd word choice following your 'no "morality" of any kind'. If it's all amoral, how do you gauge a sociopath? (Asking for a cereal killer).
Comment Re:It's actually worse than that (Score 1) 49
They haven't reached the magic number 36, but they are seriously working on it. I figure another 10 years.
Comment . . .raise cash? (Score 1) 44
Or are you going to sit there and pretend that there isn't a whole lot of opportunism going on?
Comment Re:Rule of law (Score 1) 58
I think that the Convention of States is the least-worst answer.
Comment Re:Wrong door? (Score 1) 33
Ever seen a drunk driver going REALLY slow?
Comment Just stop it (Score 1) 24
you want to discard the fundamental principle of innocent until proven guilty - as well as protection from double jeopardy and other basic rights extended to the accused in the criminal justice system in this country - when the accused is someone who has the dreaded letter D after their name.
This is false, you know it's false, and you're just trolling to say that I would:
(a) disregard the Constitution I've sworn to support and defend, even in the case of the rank idiocy to which you seem to tend,
(b) set a precedent that would surely be used as a club against me
You can let that go right there.
Your political spectrum actually is better represented as a monopole, really. You only have people who you see as "good" (republicans) and those who you see as evil (everyone else). You don't even bother looking at what they actually believe in, only who they associate with. The obsolete one-dimensional political spectrum at least sorts on some sort of continuum, yours is binary.
Oh yeah! Well, your system is like kryptonite mixed with anti-matter! [Trying to come up with a formulation as silly as yours.]
So, is your new strategy to accuse your way to "victory", whatever that is?
Comment Re:It's actually worse than that (Score 1) 49
You're spraypainting the history, and relying upon my lack of time to go back and call your bluff, which is true, for now. Maybe a bit of Python to download all of my comments, and build an indexed database of them is in order. It would certainly help improve your accuracy.
Comment Re:How does that qualify for an argument? (Score 1) 58
The Tea Party's ideas are the basic ones that have driven American Exceptionalism. The issue, from my POV, is that the bulk of the population hasn't done the homework, hasn't really separated fact from fiction, doesn't participate in politics at all (and I rate myself as 'barely participating') and mostly just yells at the telly.
So the issue is not merely one of education, but also participation.
So the issue is not merely one of education, but also participation.
