When Adam Smith was talking about an “invisible hand,” he was actually referring to his super-fast ninja punch.
I don’t know about the Koch brothers, but I find the billionaires like Bloomberg who spend money against liberty to be scarier.
What’s the positive message for Democrats this election? “We were saving all our competency for the last two years of the Obama presidency.”
With 8 years of Bush followed by 8 years of Obama, maybe in 2016 we should consider being done with presidents for a while.
I’ll be president in 2016 if you want. I’ll play videogames all day and leave you alone. I’ll still take the salary.
If the only way to beat Ebola is to out-fundraise it, we’re in good hands.
Who is Obama fundraising from? Who is seeing all this and wants more of it? Terrorist organizations?
Sorry, that just gets my goat. Of all the things you can do with money, but you choose to give it to a politician? That’s horrible.
I guess there is some confusion here; I’ve been trying to combat the problem of climate stasis.
Exactly how hard is it to forge Chuck E. Cheese prize tickets?
The silliness of having the government redefine the religious custom of marriage didn’t begin with gay marriage and won’t end with it.
Used to be the left questioned the institution of marriage. Now, they act like it’s the most important thing ever. How long will that last?
Oh well; can’t make logical arguments about marriage because there was never anything logical about it. Like having government regulate baptisms.
I’m against Rock the Vote. I don’t understand the benefits of encouraging idiots to vote.
Stephen King says it should take you 3 months to write a novel. I’m guessing George R.R. Martin goes by a different philosophy.
Hey Frank, have you done a Know Your Enemy-Ebola edition yet?
“Used to be the left questioned the institution of marriage. Now, they act like it’s the most important thing ever. How long will that last?”
Who knows. The best thing about being a lefty is you get to change your argument at whim, without examining the consequences. We hate war! — War is awesome! (as long as it’s our idea and we call it something else)
They like do-good projects. Let’s raise the minimum wage and make all those poor fast food workers so happy! (until they lose their jobs) What, if in a fit of sisterhood, the feminists started backing Stay at Home Moms? The notion is downright frightening.
There is no worse punishment than being backed by liberals.
“we should consider being done with presidents for a while.”
What? No Hillary? No Jeb Bush? No Mitt McRomney?
Okay, fine. Let’s board-up the White House and hang a sign on it that says: “CONDEMNED”
Of course, after President Mohammed Obola is done with it, we might have to.
The word marriage has had a specific meaning for centuries. I can understand why some object to its forcible redefinition. To illustrate: tell all cat lovers that henceforth “cats” shall be known as “dogs”, and see what reaction you get.
What I don’t get is why anyone would want a third party to define their union. As it stands right now unions are defined by our various state government, along with the federal government (for DC and the territories). If you move out of one jurisdiction into another, the definition of your union changes. For instance, in the past you might get married in a state that has a “no fault” divorce law (all 50 + DC now allow this), in which if both parties agree on the terms of the termination of their union, the state grants the divorce. Then you move into a state where the law was missing. Boom! How your union is defined just changed. And of course, the legislature in your state can change what it means whenever they choose, which again changes the definition of your union without your consent. Until unions are defined at the federal level for the entire country (and I do NOT want that), we’ll continue to have the possibility of 51 different definitions.
We should allow people to draw up civil union contracts. The state should grant the same privileges to these that they currently do to “marriage”. Then all the state should do is enforce the contract. At most, the state might have a requirement about what clauses must be present, but should have no control over the contents of those clauses. For instance, the state might require a “termination clause”, but should accept that said clause could be “Terminated only by death”, or “terminated by either party, at any time”, or anything else anyone might come up with, no matter how absurd, such as “terminated upon the impact upon the US Capital building of a meteorite not less than 1 kilogram in mass post impact”.
Stephen King’s assertion that a novel should only take 3 months to write reminded me of the following. Dark side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd, considered one of the best albums ever (charted for 741 weeks in the top 100 selling albums), took 9 months in the studio to produce (that doesn’t include the time to write the music and lyrics). John Mellencamp’s album “Uh Huh” took a total, from clean sheet to finished master tapes, of 16 days (and it sounds like it). Tolkien sent a letter to his publisher that Lord of the Rings was started in 1938, and he sent another letter that it was finished in 1950. If one restricts oneself to Stephen King’s processes (such as time spent) for writing a novel, one may find it difficult to produce a novel of higher quality than Stephen King does.
Regulate baptisms? Sprinkling or dunking? In the name of Jesus only or a trinitarian formula. Self immersion or assisted? Face forward or backwards? River, baptismal pool or fount? Clergy or laity officiated ? Then of course is there recognition of baptisms across denominational lines. Wars have been fought over less. Just wondering who the guberment could stream line this for us.
“Who is Obama fundraising from? Who is seeing all this and wants more of it? Terrorist organizations?”
Yes
I’ll be president in 2016 if you want. I’ll play videogames all day and leave you alone. I’ll still take the salary.
Run on that platform. Say you’ll only put down the controller to veto laws and I bet we could double your salary.
Just make sure SarahK doesn’t go on a “gluten free” kick for school lunches and we’ll be cool.
“I won’t even know what’s down the corridor from the game room.”
— another winning platform