The second Obama term
And let's not forget this is on the heels of a member of SCOTUS whose funeral he also skipped.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
I think that was the funeral where someone in the press corps asked the white house press secretary if Obama would be golfing the day of the funeral, and there was no comment.Leisher wrote:And let's not forget this is on the heels of a member of SCOTUS whose funeral he also skipped.
There is no outrage here, but I think a little disgust is warranted.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Leisher wrote:And let's not forget this is on the heels of a member of SCOTUS whose funeral he also skipped.
There’s not substantial historic precedent for presidents attending the funerals of sitting justices. President George W. Bush not only attended, but also eulogized Supreme Court chief justice and fellow conservative William Rehnquist in 2005. But before him, the last justice to die in office was Robert H. Jackson in 1954.
From here with my emphasis. Either way, I simply can't force myself to care about what dead person's party he's attending from one day to the next.
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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."
President Shitface says fuck your privacy, we own y'all bitches, and reserve the right to put your balls to a lawnmower blade if you're one of the legion of people we consider a "threat."
Actually, you cocksucking bastard, there is. At the end of the day, you have more bullets and thugs than I do and more cages to detain me in. There's nothing I can realistically do to stop that besides some sort of self-destruct mechanism. In this case, you might be legitimately outgunned and have no recourse. You just can't fucking stand NOT being able to stick your head 100% up everyone's asshole at will and you're reeling like a scared, little bitch. Fuck the fuck off, dickhead. You can't get out of office soon enough.
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But the president warned that America had already accepted that law enforcement can “rifle through your underwear” in searches for those suspected of preying on children, and he said there was no reason that a person’s digital information should be treated differently.
Actually, you cocksucking bastard, there is. At the end of the day, you have more bullets and thugs than I do and more cages to detain me in. There's nothing I can realistically do to stop that besides some sort of self-destruct mechanism. In this case, you might be legitimately outgunned and have no recourse. You just can't fucking stand NOT being able to stick your head 100% up everyone's asshole at will and you're reeling like a scared, little bitch. Fuck the fuck off, dickhead. You can't get out of office soon enough.
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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."
Michelle Obama, pop star.
I honestly don't hate this as it's for a good cause, but it'll be less effective than "Just Say No".
I honestly don't hate this as it's for a good cause, but it'll be less effective than "Just Say No".
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
...it'll be less effective than "Just Say No".
Motherfuck that idiocy and I hope Satan is stabbing her ass with a pitchfork for it.
The presidency of Ronald Reagan marked the start of a long period of skyrocketing rates of incarceration, largely thanks to his unprecedented expansion of the drug war. The number of people behind bars for nonviolent drug law offenses increased from 50,000 in 1980 to over 400,000 by 1997.
Public concern about illicit drug use built throughout the 1980s, largely due to media portrayals of people addicted to the smokeable form of cocaine dubbed “crack.” Soon after Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, his wife, Nancy Reagan, began a highly-publicized anti-drug campaign, coining the slogan "Just Say No."
This set the stage for the zero tolerance policies implemented in the mid-to-late 1980s. Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, who believed that “casual drug users should be taken out and shot,” founded the DARE drug education program, which was quickly adopted nationwide despite the lack of evidence of its effectiveness. The increasingly harsh drug policies also blocked the expansion of syringe access programs and other harm reduction policies to reduce the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS.
In the late 1980s, a political hysteria about drugs led to the passage of draconian penalties in Congress and state legislatures that rapidly increased the prison population.
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."
Leisher wrote:You like drugs.
We get it.
The number of people behind bars for nonviolent drug law offenses increased from 50,000 in 1980 to over 400,000 by 1997.
I also like not overspending on corrupt private prison pricks.
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."
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"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
There was nothing wrong with "Just Say No". It was a bit lame and ineffective but ultimately harmless. DARE was also lame, but with as much blatant misinformation they were spreading it probably did have some small effect. But again harmless in itself.
It's the rest of that bullshit in that big quote up there that was the real problem. That's just as much the fault of everyone else in Washington at the time. You can't lay all that on one kooky old lady, Malcolm.
It's the rest of that bullshit in that big quote up there that was the real problem. That's just as much the fault of everyone else in Washington at the time. You can't lay all that on one kooky old lady, Malcolm.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
But again harmless in itself.
The millions of dollars wasted on that horseshit may as well have been thrown into a volcano.
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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."
Transparency.
In more than one in six cases, or 129,825 times, government searchers said they came up empty-handed last year. Such cases contributed to an alarming measurement: People who asked for records under the law received censored files or nothing in 77 percent of requests, also a record.
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."
In terms of government spending, that's practically the definition of harmless.Malcolm wrote:The millions of dollars wasted on that horseshit may as well have been thrown into a volcano.But again harmless in itself.
"ATTENTION: Customers browsing porn must hold magazines with both hands at all times!"
Then there's the bloating of the prison system, which has cost untold billions in terms of direct cash, lives, and time. The country still follows an extremely cell-happy judicial philosophy.TPRJones wrote:In terms of government spending, that's practically the definition of harmless.Malcolm wrote:The millions of dollars wasted on that horseshit may as well have been thrown into a volcano.But again harmless in itself.
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."
Health care costs staying low.
Obamacare insurance premiums will leap 6 percent a year over the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday — growing faster than the costs of private insurance as insurers try to calibrate their plans for the new health marketplace.
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."