US POLITICS SPRING 2011: Let's just call off this country.

also like how we basically just passed the yin to that provision's yang here in mn---go omar, go!

As noted in the link:

Joining MillerCoors in support of the provision are industry associations that have an interest in preserving the current business of beer distributors, including the industry’s lobby, the Wisconsin Beer Distribution Association.

MillerCoors also donated to Walker's campaign

idk, liquor politics have been really fucked up and corrupt since the rum trade, really.

beyond the "how could he!" and fake-free-marketeer gotcha type stuff, this is interesting 2me because of the constituency issues.

as in? wisconsinites love beer and this is the ultimate fuck you?

you can't think of it in terms of just another 'small business', it's a niche manufacturing segment that makes something that ppl who hate scott walker really like, if not vice versa.

or, more generously, nobody in walker-world really gave this a second thought because it's not really in their mental map of things to care about

i think the cultural politics of craft beer are a little more complicated than that g-man!

to turn it around, imagine a gov. feingold signed some reg that favored the larger gun makers over small boutique crafters in the state or something (the analogy doesn't work but just go with it). maybe it's 'no big deal' but it'd be a huge offense to the customer base!

xp well maybe

p sure there are loads of craft brewers who would identify as conservative/tea party dudes

conservative/tea party dudes are the exact ppl who would be pissed about being forced to sell their stuff through distributors thanks to state legislation, I would think

Well, yeah, but this wouldn't exactly the first time tea party dudes' beliefs don't exactly line up with they actually shout about.

sure but it might lift some scales from a few people's eyes and bolster the recall movement (...that's gonna happen, right?)

http://neversleep2.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/yes.jpg?w=266&h=221

lol where is that from

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2011/06/allen_west_flag_code_violates_federal_law.php

Great music:
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Music, but horrible music:
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Not music:
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--You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro)

Great music:
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Music, but horrible music:
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Not music:
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--You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro)

(my typo = Anita Hill vs Clarence Thomas) --Huk-L

what the everliving fuck

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--James Mitchell

science sez AV wins

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/04/mathematicians-weigh-in-on-uk.html
--standing on the shoulders of pissants (ledge)

huh?

anyway, i didn't think the flag code was like real law.

glumdalclitch

I can't believe what I'm hearing from folks? All, similar letters to yours.
Are you a Union member? If so, are they the communist giving you this
propaganda?
Do you know the who, what, when, where, why, and how, of Fidel Castro?
Hitler rose to power using and blaming the jews for the destruction of the
German economy. Castro built his army of murderers by blaming the rich
bankers and capitalist for destroying Cuba and taking advantage of the Cuban
people. Hummmm?

Yung Humma has lost his mind

slander AND bang it

the rep who wrote that, to one of his constituents, was caught in his parked car in the lot of a planned parenthood, with a loaded gun. his explanation to the police was that the PP location was just a coincidence, he was just trying to "check up" on a woman he'd gone on an online date with, who was no longer returning his calls.

this was last year some time? pretty sure i wrote about it.

http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/members/members.asp?id=10229

yeah, you did

btw dude appears to be CRAZY

think this goes beyond appearances...

crazy like an ALPHA

Oh no! Communists! I've heard about those! I'm so scared! Those are those bad guys from that 80s movie with Patrick Swayze and Charlie Sheen, right?

who could have known that this man would react so badly to a bunch of form letters from union members...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/assets_c/2011/06/romney%20butt%20grab-cropped-proto-custom_6.jpg

top ten questions that should have been asked at the gop cnn debate?
http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/002207.htm
10. Would you appoint a Muslim-American to serve in your cabinet?
9. Do you believe, as Pastor John Hagee does, that "The United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God's plan for both Israel and the West?" If not, why not?
8. Did you support President Obama's decision to triple U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan and quadruple drone strikes in Pakistan? What would your approach be now?
7. Do you believe that global warming is, as Republican Senator James Inhofe put it, "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people?" If not, do you believe that climate change is the result of human action? What would you do as President to combat it?
6. Would you ban abortion in all cases, including rape, incest and to protect the health of the mother? What criminal penalties do you think should American women and their doctors face?
5. Do you join the 235 House Republicans and 40 GOP Senators in supporting the Ryan plan to privatize the government Medicare program even though costs for private insurers have risen much more sharply?
4. In 2010, Republicans campaigned on a promise to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act enabling health insurance for 32 million Americans? If you favor repeal, what specific programs would you replace it with?
3. Do you agree with House Speaker John Boehner that failure to raise the debt ceiling would be a "financial disaster" for the United States?
2. The House Republican "Plan for Job Creators" calls for even more tax cuts for upper income Americans. Do you support that plan even though America created far more jobs when their tax rates were higher?
1. Do you believe that tax cuts pay for themselves?

I didn't watch the debate. You mean CNN's John King didn't ask those! I think questions 1 and 2 would work better if you first quoted and cited the economic analyses showing the higher job growth when tax rates were higher (and had follow-ups ready in case they said Clinton just luckily benefited from a tech boom)

RIP, Pres Newt

hahahahahahaha

xpost those questions are nice and all but there's no way that any of the candidates, except maybe Ron Paul, would have provides a direct answer to any of them.

I hope Newt's pres run goes on and on forever, just for the lols

I think he's at the point where scandals can't really hurt cause at least they remind people that he's running for president

I mean I basically forgot he was running every moment on the debate where he wasn't on screen

the Daily Show clip I saw suggested something like #10 was asked. xxp

btw Bachmann's words on Libya > Obama's, whether you believe them or not.

Our policy in Libya is substantially flawed. It’s interesting. President Obama’s own people said that he was leading from behind. The United States doesn’t lead from behind. As commander in chief, I would not lead from behind.

We are the head. We are not the tail. The president was wrong. All we have to know is the president deferred leadership in Libya to France. That’s all we need to know. The president was not leading when it came to Libya.

We are the alphas, and France are the deltas.

2400 years after Plato's Republic..

the Human Centipede thread is really intruding on my reading of that Bachmann quote

"The White House is more or less conceding that it doesn't have a chance of winning a second term unless his major policies go on hiatus."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303848104576385620186823528.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

interesting argument from a bastion of balanced commentary

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/02/27/document_shows_romneys_strategies/

Enmity toward France, where Romney did his Mormon mission during college, is a recurring theme of the document. The European Union, it says at one point, wants to "drag America down to Europe's standards," adding: "That's where Hillary and Dems would take us. Hillary = France." The plan even envisions "First, not France" bumper stickers.

I think #1 on that list of questions was asked, but only to Herman Cain--purely hypothetical, in other words.

im sure this is not an original obs but its kind of funny to me that republicans have so much venom for europe's no. 1 black/muslim/immigrant-hating un-p.c. sexual harassment paradise

ehhh it's not #1 for any of those things

not individually no

(fwiw i love france, il est le meilleur, not trying to bag on it or anything, just saying)

yeah I guess it does present a pretty good package overall

cause it's like #2-4 for all of them