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"I Object!" - Featuring Robot: Tom Price
But when you get right down to it, generally speaking the vast majority of the Dems we have in office are pussies, for lack of a better word. They had a super majority, controlled both the House and the Senate with filibuster proof majorities, they could have ramrodded through ANY bill they wanted if they had just been willing to nut up say "damn the torpedoes!" and not worry about upsetting their corporate overlords. We could have had a fully funded, completely universal, national healthcare service the day after Al Franken was sworn in, if they only had the courage to do what is best for the citizens, not what's least damaging to mega-corporations.
Yeah they passed a healthcare reform bill, that has been picked apart left and right, in order to needlessly "compromise" with conservatives. Whether this bill will provide any real relief for the citizens of this country, will be for time to tell.
I personally have my doubts.
"I Object!" - Featuring Robot: Tom Price
If these assholes aren't going to grow the fuck and a behave themselves then they should lose their right to participate. It's not fair to their constituency but that's what they get for electing fuckwads to represent them.
Congressman Alan Grayson Lists Number Of Dead Per District
Also, anyone feel that watching congress is like watching a 10 year old boys' club, where they're just making shit up as they go along but pretending like it's legitimate?
Ah the grand system that is Parliamentary Procedure, the greatest way in the world to ensure that everyone who has something important to say can't and to make certain that nothing ever gets done.
>> ^quantumushroom:
Even if this lastest socialist abortion of a health care bill fails--and it better--long after this fat-faced histrionic clown is out of office we'll still already be paying for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, all of which are out of money and rife with fraud and abuse apparently no one in DC cares about.
Out of money because your "Conservative" heroes have been robbing them blind for decades to pay for everything that can't be paid for because of all those lovely tax cuts for billionaires and corporate America.
USMC Silent Drill Platoon
I guess I'm just in a tiny minority because when I see things like this I can't help thinking, "how much does it cost to maintain pointless things like this?" Couldn't that money be spent on more important things like body armor? Our military doesn't spend enough money to keep its men and women safe, but it funds a dance troupe?
Miri Ben-Ari Pepsi Commercial
There's something tremendously mind-boggling about the very concept of a hip-hop violinist.
Upvote for boggling!
As if the mind boggling wasn't enough, they had to assault our ears with a shitty hip hop cover/remix(really aren't they all) of a Charlie Daniels classic.
Cute girl though.
Bill Moyers - Single Payer Suppressed by Health Industry
Fake? Mom feeds family of 6 on $4 a week
Joe Lieberman On Why He Will Filbuster To Kill Public Option
"Space Cowboy" - Castle/Firefly
TDS: From Here to Neutrality
Actually, there is a part of me that says: If they own the lines, why shouldn't they control what goes over it however they want?
Of course I know all the reasons for net neutrality, such as encouraging innovation and preventing large businesses from stifling small startups. But if I owned parcel shipping service, I wouldn't want the government to tell me I couldn't charge extra for priority service. You could apply the same metaphor to any number of other services. Some amusement parks allow people to buy expensive VIP tickets that cut to the head of lines. Direct flights might cost more than a flight with a bunch of connections, and the concord was really pricey. All those examples make sense.
Why does the same thing not apply to internet service providers, except for the fact that we are accustomed to net neutrality and will be pissed if things change? I'm actually a little torn on this issue.
That's because you seem to be confused about the issue.
To take your parcel service analogy and put it into the correct context, think of it not as charging an individual more for different teirs of shipping priority, but more like charging amazon.com one rate with next day delivery, and newegg.com the same rate and shipping everything ground.
When I see things like Net Neutrality being fought so hard against by the cable and telephone companies, I really start to think that if any industry needs to be taken over by the government it's them. Some countries have gone so far as to make unrestricted internet access a right of their citizenry, pushing prices down and bandwidth up. But I forget we can't do that in the US, that'd cut into the massive corporate profits and that's just plain UNAMERICAN!
Fat cat climbs ladder
Hear hear. You can't just give cats a huge bowl of food and not expect them to eat and eat and eat.
Well, like people, some animals have a predisposition to obesity, where others have a propensity for a lower body fat.
I free feed all but one of my cats, and one of my dogs, they all have a healthy weight. The two that don't get free fed, don't because they easily become overweight.
Sober to Passed Out Drunk in Seconds Flat
Minuteman Runs Away From Chicano Girl
It's estimated that thousands of people cross the border from Mexico every year. (some stay, some just visit) So our border has definitely never been secure. I don't even think it's physically possible to secure.
I wish I could remember where I read it, my memory sucks these days, but I read that the number of Asian illegals coming into the US every year are in the millions, yet you never hear anyone include Asians when they refer to illegal immigrants. All you hear is about how we have to build a fence to keeps the Mexicans out. You never hear about the hundreds of thousands of Chinese who spend their life savings to travel, squeezed into a shipping container, to the US, and who are then extorted for more money, that they don't have and forced into slavery for the gangsters that brought them here, or worse have the container dropped off the side of a ship, murdering the several hundred inside, for fear of having the people discovered.
But hell what should we really expect? This country has never had a history of respecting anyone but rich white men.
Scientology Rep. Can't Handle the Heat On Xenu, Storms Out
It violates his beliefs to talk publicly about his beliefs. What?
Rule #1: You don't talk about
Fight ClubXenu.Rule #2: You don't talk about
Fight ClubXenu!Scientology Rep. Can't Handle the Heat On Xenu, Storms Out
Finding Scientology to be more absurd than your personal religion just makes you a hypocrite and an idiot.
Alan Grayson: Fox and Republicans "The Enemies Of America"
Glenn Beck Has A Brief Moment Of "Self-Awareness"
but I am slightly sick of hearing that when people make voting decisions based on their beliefs, they are somehow violating the "separation of church and state" doctrine, which I believe wholeheartedly in, but which is not an explicit part of the Constitution.
Quite right, though, taken at it's literal meaning "Congress shall not make any laws respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" quite implicitly means that laws cannot be based on religious doctrine. In all actuality having "Christmas Day" a federal holiday is a violation of the First Amendment. Anti-Gay marriage laws are pure and simple unconstitutional.
When a law has ZERO basis outside of religious doctrine, as those preventing gay marriage, they are in violation of the First Amendment. As for people voting based on their religious beliefs, sure that doesn't violate the separation of Church and State, having faith based ballot measures does.
>> ^PHJF:
One can oppose gay marriage from a strictly utilitarian perspective. Marriage is about making BABIES, babies which fuel the economy. All sociopolitical barriers aside, I don't foresee two men or women impregnating each other anytime soon.
I'll agree with that position as soon as they make it a crime to have a child out of wedlock. That's like saying that if a straight person cannot procreate they shouldn't be allowed to get married, which is just as absurd as non breeding gay people. Why does Satan have such idiotic lawyers? You'd think with all of them going to Hell, he could pick the cream of the crop.
Alan Grayson: Fox and Republicans "The Enemies Of America"
Bumblebee costume for, Great for Halloween
I was really hoping for something new and spectacular. When he "transformed" into the car I was really hoping to see him roll out.
Barney's Crib
Oh and thanks for reminding me why Alexis Denisof is one lucky son of a bitch.