I have scheduling conflicts.Leisher wrote:Isn't Malcolm enough?Vince wrote:Can we get that annoying "we hate everything" atheist group to protest this?
The second Obama term
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Obama: Congress? Fuck those guys.
Frustrated by years of congressional inaction on what most in Washington agree is a broken immigration system, Obama is planning to issue a reprieve from deportation that will cover some parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
The speech where King Obama will pardon millions of illegals will not be broadcast on ABC, CBS, NBC, or Fox.
It will air on Univision, where the Latin Grammys will be delayed for the speech.
http://deadline.com/2014....1289203
I guess they are counting on the continued stupidity of the American voter.
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It will air on Univision, where the Latin Grammys will be delayed for the speech.
http://deadline.com/2014....1289203
I guess they are counting on the continued stupidity of the American voter.
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaig....eraghty
If you want to stretch the powers of the presidency beyond all recognition, to insist “prosecutorial discretion” now means not enforcing the law for millions of people who violated the law by entering the country illegally, and to claim unilateral power to change the makeup of American society in the face of stiff public and Congressional opposition… at least wear a suit jacket, right? This is a special occasion.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
I don't see how that's any more outrageous than the rest of the stuff President's have been doing for the past 50 years. Selective enforcement of the law has been recognized as one of the checks and balances (in this case the Executive putting limits on the Legislative and - to a lesser degree - the Judiciary) for a long time.
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"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
Guess this dude's a dick for telling the Supreme Court to go fuck off, too.GORDON wrote:This is just the icing on the icing on the icing (etc) on the cake.
John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!
- Andrew goddamn Jackson
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Most constitutional scholars agree that selective enforcement of the law usually pertains to individual cases where the President doesn't feel that the spirit of the law applies to these cases.TPRJones wrote:I don't see how that's any more outrageous than the rest of the stuff President's have been doing for the past 50 years. Selective enforcement of the law has been recognized as one of the checks and balances (in this case the Executive putting limits on the Legislative and - to a lesser degree - the Judiciary) for a long time.
The case you cited is a little different as it's pulling States' Rights into it which is a little different than what we have going on here.
If this stands, my hope is that the next President announces that the IRS will no longer be enforcing the collection of the ACA taxes and let that program implode in red ink.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
Of course he was a dick. That's what made him a good President.
If Obama had just half the nutsack that Jackson had then he could have been a good President, too. But as soon as he was elected his whole Hope & Change parade shriveled up and fell off along with his testicles.
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If Obama had just half the nutsack that Jackson had then he could have been a good President, too. But as soon as he was elected his whole Hope & Change parade shriveled up and fell off along with his testicles.
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"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
We totally didn't lie, we're just incompetent.
Health and Human Services has issued a statement saying the numbers were included by "mistake" and that, without including dental plans, Obamacare enrollment is currently at 6.7 million
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
More ways telecom companies are being bitches.
Yes, god forbid people be able to sign up for services they want.
Suck a dick, telecom industry.
As opposed to AT&T, which has also failed to live up to expectations?
The attack is led by municipally owned internet service providers (ISPs) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Wilson, North Carolina: cities with lightning-fast internet speeds of one gigabit a second, about 50 times better than the US average. Neighbors in rural counties want to sign up, and that’s where the trouble starts.
Yes, god forbid people be able to sign up for services they want.
Chattanooga’s EPB and Wilson’s Greenlight are challenging state laws similar to those that exist in 20 states that restrict or bar local governments from offering broadband, so setting precedent is one goal here. The bans have been lobbied for, furiously, by cable and telecoms firms that argue competition from public networks is unfair to private industry, while companies like Netflix have lobbied against them.
Suck a dick, telecom industry.
Incumbents disagree. AT&T spokesman Michael Balmoris says municipal broadband is both doomed to failure and so successful it threatens private actors: “Although many GONs [government-operated networks] have failed, or at least failed to live up to expectations,” Balmoris wrote, “GONs can nonetheless discourage private sector investment because of understandable concerns by private sector entities of a non-level playing field.”
As opposed to AT&T, which has also failed to live up to expectations?
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
http://www.nationalreview.com/article....w-cooke
And yet, just one short year after he had told students that he was hamstrung by the rules, the president did precisely what he said he could not, refusing to "enforce and implement" those "very clear" laws and abdicating disgracefully his "appropriate role as president."
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Evidently, the new approach suited the president. Soon thereafter, he began to make extra-legislative changes to Obamacare, without offering any earnest legal justifications whatsoever; he responded to Congress’s refusal to raise the minimum wage by rewriting the Service Contract Act of 1965; and, as a matter of routine, he took to threatening, cajoling, and mocking Congress, and to informing the country's lawmakers that by declining to consent to his will they were refusing to do "their jobs." In Obama's post-2011 world, it seems, legislators are not free agents but parliamentary subordinates possessed of two choices: either they do what he wants, or they watch him do what he wants. Refusing assent seems to be regarded as an entirely illegitimate option. This, it should be perfectly obvious, is the attitude not of the statesman, but of the mugger. "Give me your wallet," the ruffian says, "or I will take it by force." That progressives who once championed the man for his calm and his virtue have taken to twisting themselves into knots in his defense should tell us all we need to know about their broader sincerity -- and his.
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Today, the transformation of Barack Obama from wide-eyed idealist to bitter imperator will finally be completed. Amid the glitz and the artifice of Las Vegas, the last vestiges of the one we were waiting for will be swept ignominiously away, leaving only power, cynicism, and partisanship in their stead. There was a time when our 44th president claimed to stand for transparency, modesty, moderation, tolerance, humility, reason, and calm. Today, just feet from Caesars Palace, he will don the robes of the emperor and spin minor discretion into gargantuan usurpation, all norms and touchstones be damned. However convincing are the promises of the ambitious, Lord Acton always has the last laugh.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."