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9 years ago @ Filibuster Cartoons - Three frenemies · 0 replies · +2 points

First things first. We have to lose the anti-American line before any others.

9 years ago @ Filibuster Cartoons - Women World Leaders · 0 replies · +2 points

So the moral is that the next leader of every country should be female, because FEMALE!!

...nah. Didn't convince me either.

9 years ago @ Filibuster Cartoons - On Charlie Hebdo · 1 reply · +2 points

" avoid the offensive – not just as perceived by Muslims, but also blacks, Asians, latinos, aboriginals, feminists, gays, the transgendered, and a seemingly endless rainbow of other “marginalized groups” bearing a lengthy laundry list of words, images, and allusions "

No worries, there are still: whites, men, straights, Christians, gun owners, Tea Party, conservatives (men and women) and white collar workers that remain fair game.

10 years ago @ Filibuster Cartoons - Power Suit · 0 replies · +1 points

" If I'm not mistaken, Congress today has more staff than the entire Federal Government did in 1790, and if the government had shut down in the late 18th century it might have taken a few months for most people to notice (and longer than that so long as the military was still being paid). "

The entire federal government in the 1920's was smaller than the state government of Rhode Island, then the New Deal exploded the bureaucracy.

Then the Congress of the 70's began to cede legislative power to the bureaucratic '4th pillar' of power - something that does not have a Constitutional check to its power and is not directly accountable to the citizens.

It's a clusterf*ck that can only be fixed by people with integrity to stand up and reel in bad decisions from the past. As we have seen, integrity is not historically a high priority to the political class.

10 years ago @ Filibuster Cartoons - Seducing the Right · 3 replies · -4 points

It's relevant in that Bundy concedes his case to the state of Arizona, and has been making lease payments to the state to use what he considers to be his land. After that, the legality is secondary.

Armed vigilantes and "putting women in the front line" - a word-of-mouth statement from other people. Some of those so-called 'vigilantes' are women, you know. Exactly what judgment and punishment did they inflict?

10 years ago @ Filibuster Cartoons - Seducing the Right · 9 replies · -5 points

I sympathize with his situation, but not necessarily the person.

I support state's rights to manage their own land, instead of the federal leviathan. I support a private citizen standing against an over-reactive government sending in snipers and attack helicopters. I support freedom of expression and right to bear arms against 'first amendment zones.' I even support his right to make outlandish statements, though I don't agree with everything he says.

I don't support a media ginning up his outlandish statements, when the real issue is a private citizen being pushed off his land in favor of an 'endangered' tortoise that is so endangered that it's population in those area has to be culled. I don't support a federal government using its ability to designate 'endangered' or 'threatened' animals to push itself on private business practices.

10 years ago @ The Heritage Foundry - 'Here to Stay': Triump... · 0 replies · +20 points

So why is it the Obama Administration could never give counts for the last 5 months when asked about enrollees, saying those numbers were still coming in... but now they have no problem telling us the numbers from yesterday?_

10 years ago @ Filibuster Cartoons - Sitting out Ukraine · 0 replies · +2 points

Scaling down your military (at the advice of the very man who is effectively abandoning them) helps too.

11 years ago @ The New Civil Rights M... - Texas Republicans Find... · 4 replies · -9 points

Two things folks:

1) Lack of personal responsibility is *NOT* disenfranchisement. They should have handled this issue after they got married.

2) Married women tend to vote conservative/GOP. Look at all the data. Just sayin'

11 years ago @ Filibuster Cartoons - 4/15/2013 · 4 replies · +1 points

4/15 is also the birthday of North Korea's founder and the anniversary of Israel's creation. Who cares?

Speculation doesn't matter. We just need to catch the people involved. We don't need to give them a soapbox afterwards.

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