Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:09 AM
Georgia Runoff: Southern state goes back to polls to determine balance of power in Senate.
India/Pakistan: Still tense, but Pakistan offers its help.
U.S. Automakers: Whiny welfare queens.
City Council: Might maybe think about indicating a slight preference for one of eight Viaduct options.
WaMu Employees: Still laid off.
Peaceful Coups!: In Thailand and...Canada?
Eric Holder: That moustache might be dirty.
Pirates!: Attack cruise ship.
Nuclear or Biological Attack: Likely by 2013, says panel.
Saddam's Cousin: Sentenced to death...again.
Obama: Meeting with governors today to discuss financial crisis.
Out of the Cellar: Tracy, CA couple allegedly keeps teen chained, tortured for a year.
Dull-Looking Atheist Sign: Joining nativity scene in Olympia.
God: Asshole driver with road rage.
Ha-Ha: Loser John Kerry likely skipped over for Obama cabinet.
And now, a dancing hexapod competition:
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US Automakers: why can't we just let them go bankrupt?
Out of the cellar: Sure to appear in an ECDAMAAF post.
Dull-looking atheist sign: "Christmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ"
Out of the cellar: Sure to appear in an ECDAMAAF post.
Dull-looking atheist sign: "Christmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ"
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So God told the guy to run the woman off the road, and he also kept the woman from getting killed. Okaaaay...
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Hexapods are for losers like scary tyler moore. Please post more videos with dancing pyramids in them.
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The possible change of leadership in Canada is a perfectly legal and legitimate in the parliamentary system. Calling it a peaceful coup makes it sound extra legal.
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Unfortunately, I wouldn't get your hopes up about the Georgia runoff. There are plenty of rednecks mad that they didn't get their way in November. I think they'll turn out and use this as a protest vote.
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The 60 votes-needed-to-have-vote is adopted anew every time the Senate reorganizes so it's the Democratic senators who will be to blame for hamstringing themselves (and stupidly embiggening the power of the GOP) by re-enacting this antidemocratic rule.
"Change" would be, um, not re-enacting this rule and having some other rule that automatically limits debate so that um, the majority of the body can actually vote on things......
Secondly, Obama will be able to usually pick off a few moderate Republican Senators to get to 60...the two from Maine, Specter, etc. They do not want to be the next Gordon Smith. So there is no magic in getting to 60 Demcorats as the post incorrectly assumes.
Um this is probably why Obama is NOT campaigning in Ga. .....If there was this magic bright line threshhold requiring 60 Democrats, um, he would be dumb to not campaign there, right? He probably could draw crowds of 300,000 at the biggest stadium in the state (insdie and out) and the biggest church in ATlanta (inside and out)....get the King family telling everyone to go vote for Martin....
He's likely NOT doing this because he believes there is no magic number at 60 D's and there is more gain in holding back and being presidential right now, etc.
So yes we will lose this race but no, don't fret. We will get the 60 votes, even if the Democrats and Obama hew to tradition/non-change / old style politics so much, they re enact this dumb cloture rule.
Unity --
"Change" would be, um, not re-enacting this rule and having some other rule that automatically limits debate so that um, the majority of the body can actually vote on things......
Secondly, Obama will be able to usually pick off a few moderate Republican Senators to get to 60...the two from Maine, Specter, etc. They do not want to be the next Gordon Smith. So there is no magic in getting to 60 Demcorats as the post incorrectly assumes.
Um this is probably why Obama is NOT campaigning in Ga. .....If there was this magic bright line threshhold requiring 60 Democrats, um, he would be dumb to not campaign there, right? He probably could draw crowds of 300,000 at the biggest stadium in the state (insdie and out) and the biggest church in ATlanta (inside and out)....get the King family telling everyone to go vote for Martin....
He's likely NOT doing this because he believes there is no magic number at 60 D's and there is more gain in holding back and being presidential right now, etc.
So yes we will lose this race but no, don't fret. We will get the 60 votes, even if the Democrats and Obama hew to tradition/non-change / old style politics so much, they re enact this dumb cloture rule.
Unity --
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So-called experts continue to promulgate the lie that there is a such thing as "weapons of mass destruction", which includes nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. There is not; there is only nuclear. Biological weapons are impossible to deploy -- they have NEVER been deployed by anyone on a mass scale. And chemical weapons are just as difficult -- Aum Shinrikyo was only able to kill a handful of people with sarin gas, far fewer than they could have with bombs or guns. Even Saddam's famous gassing of the Kurds was only successful because of the massive scale -- it was the equivalent of carpet-bombing, and would have killed far more if it had been with conventional bombs. 7/7, Madrid, and Bombay were all conventional; 9/11 was unconventional but not WMD.
The ONLY WMD is nuclear, period. And yes, there will be a nuclear terror attack within the next few years, because Russia and Pakistan have been doing their level best to make it happen, spreading the material and the know-how far and wide. But the US bears some blame, too, as Bush's focus on the bullshit of WMD, and the disastrous war in Iraq, have come at the expense of any kind of serious anti-proliferation. A disinterested observer of US policy the past eight years would have to come to the conclusion that we just don't give a shit about nukes in the hands of terrorists. We've done NOTHING.
The ONLY WMD is nuclear, period. And yes, there will be a nuclear terror attack within the next few years, because Russia and Pakistan have been doing their level best to make it happen, spreading the material and the know-how far and wide. But the US bears some blame, too, as Bush's focus on the bullshit of WMD, and the disastrous war in Iraq, have come at the expense of any kind of serious anti-proliferation. A disinterested observer of US policy the past eight years would have to come to the conclusion that we just don't give a shit about nukes in the hands of terrorists. We've done NOTHING.
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Now Fnarf, that's not strictly true. We haven't done NOTHING - we did destroy the career of Valerie Plame, a CIA agent who was actively involved in nuclear counter-proliferation.
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#1 Because 3 million people will lose their jobs. And we are not just talking about executives. We are not just talking about the blue collar auto workers, we are talking about the service industry that work in the fast fod and grocery stores in those communities. What has happened to Flint, Michigan will happen to a lot of communities. I think as long as the automakers can come with a deal that keeps the workers working without unfairly high wages to executives, and that the automakers pledge to only make cars with a minimum MPG of 25, then a bail out is in our best interest.
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Funny thing about that whole "I want Hillary to be Secretary of State" thing....
Obama may want to check his copy of the Constitution. (You know, that thing he plans to take an oath to protect...)
U.S. Constitution Article One, Section Six reads:
"No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office."
In other words it prohibits senators (or representatives) from taking a civil office if the legislator has voted to increase the pay for that job.
Hillary was a Senator when the legislator last voted to increase the pay of the Secretary of State.
So she is barred from holding that position by the Constitution...
Details, details... A Detail one would think a President-elect who's a former part-time constitutional law professor would presumably be aware of...
Obama may want to check his copy of the Constitution. (You know, that thing he plans to take an oath to protect...)
U.S. Constitution Article One, Section Six reads:
"No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office."
In other words it prohibits senators (or representatives) from taking a civil office if the legislator has voted to increase the pay for that job.
Hillary was a Senator when the legislator last voted to increase the pay of the Secretary of State.
So she is barred from holding that position by the Constitution...
Details, details... A Detail one would think a President-elect who's a former part-time constitutional law professor would presumably be aware of...
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#11 But maybe they should lose their jobs. Some, probably most, of them will find new jobs. If the job has become obsolete, it shouldn't be saved. The traditional gas-guzzler cars of GM, Ford, and the like are becoming less desireable. Maybe they should be left to die.
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Those Hexapods are amazing. The advances in Robotics we are going to see in our lifetimes will be amazing and frightening.
Oh yeah and in reference to the discussion about nuclear terrorism, it is going to happen and it will be a game changer, they are already preparing to have the troops in place when it happens http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27989275/
The nuclear terrorist "incident" will not be by the "terrorists" we have radiation detection equipment sensitive enough to detect an irradiated cat coming across the border http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/da…
We can certainly detect a smuggled nuclear weapon. The nuclear terrorist attack will be a false flag attack by elements in our own government and we will have a police state in the aftermath...
Oh yeah and in reference to the discussion about nuclear terrorism, it is going to happen and it will be a game changer, they are already preparing to have the troops in place when it happens http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27989275/
The nuclear terrorist "incident" will not be by the "terrorists" we have radiation detection equipment sensitive enough to detect an irradiated cat coming across the border http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/da…
We can certainly detect a smuggled nuclear weapon. The nuclear terrorist attack will be a false flag attack by elements in our own government and we will have a police state in the aftermath...
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#12 I think they can show precedence that other administrations had already broken that rule.
#13 Tell me where these "other jobs" are.
#13 Tell me where these "other jobs" are.
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