Comment Re:Interesting... (Score 2) 133
Personally, when I ran the numbers on these, they should be charging people a time fee. If you come in once a year for a battery refresh, then you get charged more than the person that fills-up every day.
You're ignoring the huge infighting in the GOP, for what reason, exactly?
Because at the end of the day, they vote together in 99% of the elections (excepting the few where both sides field a candidate). They are internally divided, but 100% unified when the question is, "will you vote for Nancy Pelosi, or her opponent, who is a marmoset dressed in drag". They'll vote against the Democrats every time, no matter what.
In the question of far-right Republicans and off-the-charts-right Republicans, it doesn't matter. Alien Vs Predator's tag line comes to mind. Whoever wins, we lose.
Reading the examples in your link, they look to be Teabaggers vs Republicans. The Teabaggers are more conservative than the Republicans. So the fighting doesn't matter. Where are the liberal Republicans? The small government Republicans don't have a voice in the fight.
Or are you one of the ones that thinks the Teabaggers are small-government Republicans? I've been to meetings, they are pro-religion Republicans looking to impose religious worship on us all. The reason the country is failing is that women can have abortions, whites can marry blacks, and taxes can buy something other than guns. Higher taxes for more guns is a good thing, to the Teabaggers I've met. They don't want a smaller government. They just want everyone on welfare to be dead (and by everyone, I think they really mean the blacks, as there are more whites on welfare than blacks, but that never is brought up).
I've been a member of the Libertarian Party, and the Republican Party and attended Teabagger meetings (back when they actually called themselves teabaggers, and so long as they claim they never did, I'll never stop using it), but on Slashdot I'm continually told that I don't "understand" them. Often by people who have never been to the actual meetings where people stand up and say stupid racist stuff, to a cheer of people.
Oh, and I've never been a member of the Democratic Party. And didn't vote for Clinton or Obama (though I never voted for a Bush either).
"Discretion" is one thing. Completely ignoring their job requirements and the mandate of their bosses and the public (who in Nebraska, still want marijuana to be illegal) is something else entirely.
Are you familiar with the cases the police used to get "discretion" essentially coded into law?
The example I heard is where a woman had a restraining order out against an ex. He threatened her life, "I'm coming to kill you tonight at 7" kind of specific threat. She called the police and told them that he violated his restraining order by making the threat. He made the threat. He was arrestable at that point. She gave his last known address. She gave the time and place of her death. The police went out hours after her death, on the call of a neighbor. He showed up at the appointed time and killed her.
The Police discretion was used to ignore a whiney bitch who probably deserved what she got. If you think that not arresting someone for violating a restraining order, not going out on a call for help, and letting people die is not "completely ignoring their job requirements" I'd like to know what is.
On a more personal level, my uncle (rich white guy, elected judge in IL) was pulled over at least 10 times for DUI between #2 and #3 because he'd be let off every time by the police, knowing that a felony conviction would end his career. They finally gave him #3 when he crashed his wifes car, stumbled home, and got into his car and drove back to see how bad it was. There was a crowd of civilians around the crash site, as well as the officers that recognized his wife's car and his car as he drove back, and with all the civilian witnesses, decided it was finally time to arrest him for #3.
Police have long fought to never enforce a law they don't want to, and to get to enforce knowingly bad laws. They almost always win.
"I don't care if you go to Colorado and smoke pot, but it's still illegal here and if I catch you with it, I have to arrest you." Law enforcement officers I know are mixed on whether they think pot is okay or not, but they all agree that if you're caught with it, they can't just let you go.
But the police have argued all the way to the Supreme Court that "discretion" is a right of the cops, and they are *never* required to enforce any law.
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