Since you brought up that much maligned health care bill in an apparent effort to slander it more, did you know (and I doubt if you did, or if you did, that you'd actually want it publicly known) that in 2014 all health plans in America will no longer be allowed to deny coverage because of a pre-existing condition? Also, the working poor (up to 133% of the poverty line; or roughly $12/hour for a full time worker who supports a family of four) will receive the same excellent Medicare that our elderly do. Similar worker who make up to 400% of that line (about $88,000) will have part of their coverage rebated by the feds based on a sliding scale to 97%.

Yes I am accusing Dan Savage of cyber bullying Rick Santorum, while I also see it as protected speech. What do you call such actions? Well, beside something along the lines of 'turnabout' or 'fair play' and simply 'satire', as none of them are specific enough. Wikipedia calls it a "Neologism" but that simply describes a new recent word rather than how it came into being used. "To Savage..." seems too vague for me and would be more of a push-back on it's creator. Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling to prosecute Dan Savage via the latest cyber bulling laws, but there has to be a good name for an activity which is 'An effort to punish someone by using the internet to make derogatory meme of something personal to them'. Whatever you call it (revenge?), the result of this particular turn of events will likely this new meaning for 'frothy ass mixture' will stay in our language, whereas Senator Santorum himself will fairly quickly fade from view (He's major asshat IMHO, with plenty to criticize without ever resorting to name-calling)

In fact, I'm surprised that he appeared on the national stage at all. The only thing that he was really know for nationally was about how Dan Savage singled him out for years of mocking for some bigoted speech on the Senate floor (like it was the first time a Senator said something stupid in that forum). While few people would make the association, but I would guess that without the additional attention of that particular neologism, the former Senator who failed miserably in his attempt at a third term might never have been even notice at the national level.

Do you realize that all the best slurs are usually started or propagated originally from within those same communities? I guarantee that within a couple of years, if not already, the people most using Santorum in language will be full on bigots. (e.g. "I see that some S@nt0rum leaked out on your pants) It might be news to you, but I've found that reactionary loonies don't care about irony, in fact they seem to relish in it. Also, it's likely that children who's last name is Santorum (or even rhymes with it) will see endless teasing for that 'offense', weather it be the descendant of a singular bigot who offended Dan Savage so deeply or not, it's still a lousy thing.

That being said I would support Dan Savage over Rick Santorum on virtually any other subject and if he's able to turn some of his notably into his 'it gets better campaign', I would argue that at least some good has come out of it.

I'm not siding with Santorum and if you think that you are 'fighting back' by trying to make his family name an insult, you've already lost the battle.

While I'm not a very politically active (besides spouting out some stuff online most weeks), I have been both canvasing and on the phone bank for the Democratic party. So it's likely that I've done much more to affect political change than you. Also, I don't claim to be perfect and recently lost my temper when talking to a birther, but at least I know for a fact that such actions are the worst way to change minds

Maybe you should check my posting history before making assumptions? One should know that you make a better point to moderates and even the rare 'reasonable conservative', if you don't start off sounding like a child.

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To me any political speech that has no basis in reality is just wrong to it's core and draws from the same well as the typical school yard bully. Personally, I'd rather not have my political spectrum sullied with such nonsense and have criticized such foolery often (both right and left, if you will). While there is no way I can stop people from acting like children, I feel that politics have too many lies already and such foolery simply makes it harder to discuss the things that really need attention.

There I fixed that for you...

You might as well blame the guy cooking the burger for the lack of nutrition. Usually it's improper use of a CDN that causes these issues, such decisions are typically not made by developers, unless it's a one man shop.

As it's already approved for human use, off label is certainly a possibility, however another article I read said the mice received a 'mega-dose', so the effective amount might be too much for people. One good thing is that it's already has a decade of use and is available as a generic, but I suspect that the 'spot market' will get really hot quickly.

The Sixteenth Amendment is very, very clear on income taxes.

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

It depends on the definition of 'income'. Shooting down a proposal is much different than implementing something and finding it rejected by the courts on constitutional grounds.

Wikipedia's first sentence :

Income is the consumption and savings opportunity gained by an entity within a specified time frame, which is generally expressed in monetary terms

an entry from Webster:

a gain or recurrent benefit usually measured in money that derives from capital or labor; also : the amount of such gain received in a period of time

Dictionary.com

the monetary payment received for goods or services, or from other sources, as rents or investments.

First off you're right,secondly, I don't think that an underwriter would never agree to such a term, nor would the company want a clause that was designed to encourage them to find a lower stock price. While I'm no expert on the subject, I don't believe that an IPO is ever even most of the shares, it's more a 'taste' for the market. On some levels it's like the free sample at the supermarket. Subsequent sales are brought in at the market price once that has been established. Besides, it also sets up the ability for current owners to 'cash out', or establish credit on their ownership, and clearly they're hoping for the best price always. Sure the company has an interest in making the strike price reasonable close to reality, but one shouldn't underestimate the value of a big pop would have on publicity (even facebook still likes to be in the news).

Possibly the greatest military blunder off all time was coalition provisional authority order number 2 which dismissed the Iraqi army. This action sent hundreds of thousands young unemployed trained soldiers into the hands of the various mullahs. Arguably, it was the tinder that fuel the Iraqi civil war. L. Paul Bremer, the man who committed the blunder was rewarded with the Presidential medal of Freedom.