Wow, thanks for pointing this out for me. We narrowly averted a police state.

I could really care less if Obama was born in the United States or not. He won with 53% of the vote, it pretty much settled any questions around his citizenship.

Your opinion and contribution to this thread is about as valuable as the toilet paper I wipe my ass with.

If a gay man married a woman, they would have the same benefits as any other married couple. Now, if you want to fucking REDEFINE MARRIAGE from what it's been in Western civilization for the last 3000 years, by all means, go ahead. But don't call it some sort of equal protection bullshit. It's just the continual leftist desire to turn society on it's head.

What is that, 4 or 5 posts now where you've followed me around?

Which is why I stuck achievement in there. You are right, it's not about performance on an IQ test...presumably a lot of the basement dwellers on Slashdot would do quite well on that account, while accomplishing very little productive in their lives, at least at present.

Bush, like him or hate him, does have a body of accomplishment that is better than the vast majority of people out there. He didn't get elected President because his daddy was President. He was actually an effective and popular governor of Texas. And he got to be governor of Texas by defeating Ann Richards. His daddy didn't do that for him either.

There is certainly a lot of truth that a lot of doors were opened up for GWB due to who his father was, and if you take the same guy, and plop him into a lower middle class pedigree, the outcome would have been far different. Them's the breaks. We don't like in a perfect meritocracy. Those don't actually exist.

And as far as the job he did as President...I think Obama is finding out just how hard that job is. Because Bush fucked up things less in 8 years than Obama did his first year in.

What makes you think they are equal?

What makes you think they are treated equally under the law in other situations?

Example: you have two intoxicated people, a woman and a man. They have sexual intercourse. The man can be prosecuted for rape, but not the woman.

Cool, my very own cyber stalker. And it wasn't a straw man, dick. I shouldn't be punished for your bad choices, and you shouldn't be rewarded out of my pocket book.

The Republicans didn't manage to bully the Democrats into anything. Most of the Democrats tripped all over each other in voting for the Iraq war in trying to look "strong" in defense, and then tripped over each other a year later backbiting the President over the decision.

This is a dodge. Nominees to the Supreme Court are explicitly coached to avoid addressing decisions that may come before the Supreme Court.

The question regarding whether or not the government has the power to tell you what to eat is another way of asking the nominee if there are any restraints or limits to the power of the Federal government. Since our entire government system was founded on the basis of limited government, the situation where a judicial nominee cannot articulate the limits of government mean that candidate is singularly unqualified to serve. However, now that we have an agenda based imperial judiciary whose primary purpose is subverting the will of the people, this is the type of judicial nominee you are going to get from the Democrats from now on.

As another example, Sotomayor, that wise Latina, was unable to articulate whether or not people have a right to self defense. You know, that's only something that has existed in English Common Law for some 900 years or so. But the concept was completely foreign to her.

As a self-taught software developer without a CS degree I think you may be engaging in selection bias. The reality is that the software developers without degrees or CS degrees have to be good and typically have to have a track record to get hired that CS-grads do not. Larger pool of CS grads mean they tend to look worse comparatively, but there are some very good developers that managed to graduate with CS degrees.

How is that any different than liberals trying to remove 600 year old crosses off of hill sides in California?

Name one time when the First Amendment was suppressed under Bush.

Exactly. Tell me again why someone sitting around doing nothing but drinking and drug abusing their life away and is somehow entitled to part of my paycheck because I happen to go to work and make a decent living because I chose to do that instead of drinking and drug abusing my life away.

Can't hold a candle to Obama and Rezko in that regard. Or Clinton and Whitewater for that matter. Or Al Gore and Global Warming. Republicans are amateurs when it comes to ripping off the public compared to the Democrats.