impeachdubya's Journal - Democratic Underground http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:48:29 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:48:29 He's "bluffing on telecom immunity"? Bullshit. He bothered to vote against it, unlike HRC. And you honestly think any of it has jack-diddly shit to do with "telecom companies" going "bankrupt because they did their patriotic duty." Are you SERIOUS? REALLY?

The telecom companies don't [i]give a shit[/i] about the lawsuits. The ONLY people who seem to be worried are the folks in the Admi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/64 Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:10:12 Did you really expect me to read all 44 lines of that gibberish? You could have just posted #8. Unless you were trying to save my soul, in which case the polite thing to do would have been to ask first, at which point I would have choked my liberal elite latte up through my nose and told you not to waste your time.

I don't need to explain where the big bang ca... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/62 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:48:23 "purity"? You mean like the endless bullshit calls to throw gays, pro-choicers, atheists, etc under the bus, like after the 2004 election?

Remember? How about that endless stream of deeply "concerned" threads expressing heartfelt "concern" that, you know, by being so [i]intransigent[/i] on issues like reproductive freedom or full equality for our GLBT citizens, we were (and are still, presumabl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/61 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:11:14 Put him in a pink turtleneck, and he'd be a ringer for a wrinkly, uncircumcised penis. That's about all I can come up with.

http://www.wkrn.com/files/images/ap/politics/2007/06/fred_thompson_interview.jpg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/60 Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:59:51 Okay. Let's make this as simple as possible- a man and a woman having sex. You know, standard, penetrative sex between a man and a woman. With a camera. Following me, here? A graphic depiction of a heterosexual sex act. On film.

Can you explain, precisely, what theme of "violence and domination" is contained in such a representation? Or how about a picture of a naked wo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/59 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:03:48 The operative words, being, "mandatory or sponsored by in any part by the schools". Of course kids can organize Christian Clubs and have prayer meetings during non-school hours. That's not what you said. In fact, you wrote your line in answer to my question which was, and I quote:

"Is there any school endorsed religious activity that wouldn't seem innocuous to you?"

See that ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/58 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:15:06 Because too many "Liberals" have done a piss-poor job of articulating that personal freedom, i.e. the right of individuals to make their own damn decisions about their own lives and bodies- is a LIBERAL value.

Too many liberals (and Democratic Party leaders) have been unwilling to stand up against the right-wing culture war machine, in a misguided play to "woo the values voter". Instead... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/57 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:08:11 Oh, goody. Another anti-sex screed from the "brilliant" Dworkin, disguised as "social commentary". Let's cut to the chase, here. Andrea Dworkin may not have said "all heterosexual sex is rape" in so many words, but she did say that heterosexual, penetrative sex [i]as practiced on Planet Earth[/i] is inherently oppressive, coercive, and downright evil. Essentially, her philosophy can be summed up ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/56 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:24:22 If the fact that the Earth is round, or the facts around aerodynamics or gravity are "against someone's religion", should they not be taught in science classes? If someone thinks it's a sin to do calculus, should math be taken out of the public schools?

Evolution- Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary science- are FACTS. They are undisputed in the scientific community. They are a part- an in... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/55 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:31:03 Yeah, I'll raise a cogent argument. RUN YOUR OWN GOD DAMN LIFE.... Don't tell other people how to run theirs. Hate kids? Don't want kids? Want to be one of the gleefully self-righteous "childfree" who rolls their eyes at the mom or dad trying to get the stroller up over the sidewalk curb? Good for you. Here's a clove cigarette and a beret that matches your soul pat... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/54 Sat, 21 Jul 2007 03:22:49 Mine: 1. Thou Shalt Mind Your Own Fucking Business.

2. Thine Neighbor's business is none of thine own business, insofar as thine neighbor doth not make thine neighbors business your business, or is otherwise interfering with anyone else's business.

3. Sex is good. People like it. Deal with it.

4.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/53 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:09:32 I know. And L.A. County is nothing like Bakersfield. Shitload more people there, too.

Bottom line: The "middle Merkin Values Voter" is nowhere near as numerous or powerful as the political consultant class would have some believe. That's why Terri Schiavo bit the GOP on the ass. The Majority of Americans are pro-choice. A lot more Americans are ame... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/52 Sun, 24 Jun 2007 19:34:57 It doesn't escape me. But there is the human side, and the legislative side. I'm not just a pro-choice American with a decent understanding of the politics and science of reproduction. This issue is framed in a political and legislative context. The political questions around abortion invariably involve people either legislatively making that decision for others or not, and ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/51 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:13:53 Planned Parenthood "doesn't make it a high priority to help women avoid unintended pregnancies"????? Wow. You just won the bullshit AWARD with that one!

And who does? The Pro-Lifers who are simultaneously working to outlaw the pill and "empower" physicians to deliver lectures about Jesus to women instead of filling their pill prescriptions?

Perhaps you've heard of the [a href="http://www.pla... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/50 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:13:39 All the more reason, it gives them something to "fight" that they can never stop. Sort of like pot smoking.

The reason I harp on the ridiculous, whacked out agenda of the dominionist "brain trusts" who actually run the GOP is because, well, the people who actually run the GOP [i]have[/i] this whacked out, dominionist agenda. They're the ones in charge. They're the ones making ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/49 Sun, 10 Jun 2007 04:45:20 Wait just a gul-dang minute there, please. First off, [i]some[/i] Christians on this board get hives when fundamentalist right-wing Christians are criticized, or take criticism of the Rapture Crowd or 6,000 year old young-Earth creationism as attacks on them and their beliefs [i]personally.[/i]

Yet with the almost the same breath, they wi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/48 Thu, 17 May 2007 20:24:20 If they can't do it on half a trillion a year --NOT including hidden, secret "black" budget items, NOT including special war appropriations like the $400 Billion we've ALREADY spent on Iraq...-- I mean, hey, I'm all for "common defense", but how much the fuck do they actually NEED? We already spend more than every other nation on the Planet COMBINED on "Defense". At what point does the Military I... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/46 Wed, 09 May 2007 01:19:48 Two words for that guy: "Chad Castagana" You're fuckin' A the right wing has it's nutcases, "too". Of course, unlike your left-wing variety, the right wing nutcases often have cushy jobs at AM radio stations or even cable networks, where they can broadcast their incendiary exhortations towards violence to millions, then run back and hide b... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/45 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:45:18 So, as long as it wouldn't "pain you", you're okay with a govt playing nanny state? Three words: Prohibition. Doesn't. Work.

Ban alcohol, you get Al Capone and Gangs with Tommy Guns. Speakeasys and poisonous bathtub gin. Same with the "violence" assosciated with the drug trade. It's there because the product is illegal. At the very least, something like marijuana- far less dange... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/44 Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:12:50 There's a few things going on here. What you write deserves a considered reply, which I'll try to do even though I don't have a ton of time right now.

First off, look: part of the acerbic-ness you sense is a long-time weariness with fighting these battles, and frustration that in 2007 we're still at it. Maybe not with you, but with... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/43 Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:01:18 I don't buy it. I don't think this is a zero sum game, I also don't think that "Selfishness" inevitably leads to "evil". Selfishness brought us the Polio vaccine. Selfishness brought us microwave ovens and antibiotics. Selfishness brought us Ipods, which some people bitch about but I happen to like.

Do or can those things cause problems of their own? Of course. But I'm stil... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/42 Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:34:19 "people shpuld be able to do whatever they want". Fuck, yes. And the alternative is.....? How about an answer, instead of generalized anti-libertarian bitching? You want to be in charge of telling people how many kids they can have? How would that work, exactly?

Does that mean that overpopulation isn't a problem? No. But.. uh, birth rates are NOT a problem in Europe and the USA, where... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/41 Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:05:59 A) Explain to me why it's my business how many abortions someone else has. B) If you talk about "reducing" "abortions" with absolutely no context, it could mean anything from increasing funding for contraception research (which I support) to, paradoxically enough, throwing women in prison for taking the birth control pill, which is the logical end result of the "pro-life" ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/40 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:55:16 Not my place to tell other people what to do with their heads. And even if I was inclined to do so, I question the value of proselytizing or arguing to change other people's [b]B[/b]elief [b]S[/b]ystems (or B.S. for short)

I'm not on your path and you're not on mine. I don't tell you what to think, and I expect the same courtesy in return.

And guess what... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/39 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:19:23 Of course. They want to criminalize the birth control pill. They claim with absolute black and white certainty that the second a sperm meets an egg, it magically transmogrifies into "a baby" with rights under the 14th amendment- and the major so-called "pro-life" organizations in this country, for the most part, make no moral distinction between the pill and surgical abortion.

Yet they soft-peda... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/impeachdubya/38 Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:30:55