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post #2481 of 2499
5/8/13 at 4:03am

Everybody has an opinion in life.
 

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post #2482 of 2499
5/8/13 at 5:43am
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First, I say tough shit to those who want exemptions.

 

Good. We're all clear now that you believe that people can be forced to fund things that go against their consciences simply because the majority says so.

 

So it's great to hear that vouchers can be used for Christian schools, churches can be exempt from all taxes and Bibles can be taxpayer funded, just like other historical books. If atheists complain, we'll just steamroll over them and say tough if they want exemptions.

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post #2483 of 2499
5/8/13 at 6:09am

Cue: "false" equivalency claim.

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post #2484 of 2499
5/8/13 at 6:13am
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Looks like South Carolina will elect Sanford to congress.

 

 

 

Seriously.

 

As a Democrat?

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post #2485 of 2499
5/8/13 at 6:33am

Was Lauryn Hill singled out among tax evaders?

 

 

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Tax attorneys say celebrities like Hill are often sentenced and prosecuted more vigorously so that officials can send a message to the public. Willie Nelson, Wesley Snipes and Nicholas Cage were all prosecuted for failing to pay taxes. (Snipes did prison time; Nelson and Cage did not).
 
"Prosecutors and the IRS will deny it," said Roy Black, the famed defense attorney in Florida who represented Curran. "But everyone knows that's what's going on. They know that every newspaper in the country will have the Lauryn Hill story somewhere in the paper today. They like high-profile cases."
 
Black said that charges against celebrity tax avoiders have often been filed in early April—just in time to send a message to the public to file their returns properly.

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post #2486 of 2499
5/8/13 at 6:55am

Suffer the children: 1 in 4 UK kids to live in poverty by 2020

Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem.

(I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.)

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post #2487 of 2499
5/8/13 at 8:57am

China continues its slow motion towards expansion.

 

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/08/national/china-questions-okinawa-ownership/#.UYp0BZXfZRU

 

They are questioning whether Okinawa, home to thousands of US troops (in addition to the Japanese residents), actually belongs to Japan... or China?

 

Next they'll try for the Philippines and maybe even Hawaii.

 

The US recently said that the Senkaku Islands are Japanese without doubt, which likely POd China no end.

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A major Chinese bank today imposed sanctions on North Korea, a moved praised around the world but not announced within China.

 

Your = the possessive of you, as in, "Your name is Tom, right?" or "What is your name?"

 

You're = a contraction of YOU + ARE as in, "You are right" --> "You're right."

 

 

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Your = the possessive of you, as in, "Your name is Tom, right?" or "What is your name?"

 

You're = a contraction of YOU + ARE as in, "You are right" --> "You're right."

 

 

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post #2488 of 2499
5/8/13 at 3:24pm
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Looks like South Carolina will elect Sanford to congress.

 

 

 

Seriously.

 

This is, as many are saying, a serious loss for conservatism.

 

His strategy to nationalize the race and run against Pelosi was brilliant. Which should send a message to Democrats, if they care about November at all.

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post #2489 of 2499
5/10/13 at 2:23pm

IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groups:

 

 

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The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.
 
Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional reviews.

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post #2490 of 2499
5/12/13 at 7:08am

Missouri Legislature Nullifies All Federal Gun Control Measures by a Veto-Proof Majority:

 

 

 

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As law, HB436 would nullify virtually every federal gun control measure on the books – or planned for the future.   It reads, in part:

 

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All federal acts, laws, orders, rules, and regulations, whether past, present, or future, which infringe on the people’s right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 23 of the Missouri Constitution shall be invalid in this state, shall not be recognized by this state, shall be specifically rejected by this state, and shall be considered null and void and of no effect in this state.
(2) Such federal acts, laws, orders, rules, and regulations include, but are not limited to:
(a) The provisions of the federal Gun Control Act of 1934;
(b) The provisions of the federal Gun Control Act of 1968;
(c) Any tax, levy, fee, or stamp imposed on firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition not common to all other goods and services which could have a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;
(d) Any registering or tracking of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition which could have a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;
(e) Any registering or tracking of the owners of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition which could have a chilling effect on the purchase or ownership of those items by law-abiding citizens;
(f) Any act forbidding the possession, ownership, or use or transfer of any type of firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition by law-abiding citizens; and
(g) Any act ordering the confiscation of firearms, firearm accessories, or ammunition from law-abiding citizens.

 

The legislation also includes misdemeanor criminal penalties if agents of the federal government attempt to enact gun control measures that violate the Constitution of the United States and State Constitution of Missouri.

 

Finally, the strongest 10th Amendment act we've seen. Good for Missouri. Hopefully other states will begin exercising their 10th Amendment rights to keep the federal government in check (at least to some degree.)

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post #2491 of 2499
5/12/13 at 8:17pm
 
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The Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of conservative groups went beyond those with "tea party" or "patriot" in their names—as the agency admitted Friday—to also include ones worried about government spending, debt or taxes, and even ones that lobbied to "make America a better place to live," according to new details of a government probe.
 
The investigation also revealed that a high-ranking IRS official knew as early as mid-2011 that conservative groups were being inappropriately targeted—nearly a year before then-IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman told a congressional committee the agency wasn't targeting conservative groups.

 

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post #2492 of 2499
5/13/13 at 7:04am

Kids in the car are 12 times more distracting than cell phones

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post #2493 of 2499
5/13/13 at 3:19pm

Obama Administration Orders Colleges to Implement Unconstitutional Speech Codes

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post #2494 of 2499
5/13/13 at 4:19pm
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Obama Administration Orders Colleges to Implement Unconstitutional Speech Codes

Limiting freedoms to prepare you for Islam. Sad, and most likely unconstitutional. It says a lot that people can/should be punished no matter how irrational the person is who takes offence. 

"If your enemies cannot find a flaw in your reasoning, they will find it in your reputation".

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post #2495 of 2499
5/13/13 at 8:19pm
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Obama Administration Orders Colleges to Implement Unconstitutional Speech Codes

 

Looks to me like the bloggers hoped no one would bother to read the letter, because it doesn't say what they claim it does. Alternatively, they were too confused by page 8 of the document actually to read and understand the arguments and definitions, or even to comprehend the clearly stated distinction between sexual harassment and sexual harassment leading to a hostile environment, which underpins the findings and resolution. And the draconian measures listed appear to be a product of Volokh's imagination since none of the scenarios he lists are even mentioned in the letter.

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post #2496 of 2499
5/13/13 at 8:48pm
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Looks to me like the bloggers hoped no one would bother to read the letter, because it doesn't say what they claim it does. Alternatively, they were too confused by page 8 of the document actually to read and understand the arguments and definitions, or even to comprehend the clearly stated distinction between sexual harassment and sexual harassment leading to a hostile environment, which underpins the findings and resolution. And the draconian measures listed appear to be a product of Volokh's imagination since none of the scenarios he lists are even mentioned in the letter.

 

Possibly they didn't expect people to read it it. It is a rather lengthy and loquacious legal document (evidently written by someone who was being paid by the word) with various references to other document and indirectly includes documents that include definitions from places like here, here and here; where some or all of those listed items are explicitly stated.

 

Granted, it would take a reasonable person days or weeks to unravel the the maze of legalese created here, but I don't think what's being parsed out by Volokh is at all an unreasonable interpretation.

 

Further, it is not and unprecedented approach to attempt to bury the needle of a much wider and broader interpretative framework within the haystack of legalese that mostly seems reasonable and proper. This happens all the time with bills/laws, etc.

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post #2497 of 2499
5/13/13 at 9:03pm
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Looks to me like the bloggers hoped no one would bother to read the letter, because it doesn't say what they claim it does. Alternatively, they were too confused by page 8 of the document actually to read and understand the arguments and definitions, or even to comprehend the clearly stated distinction between sexual harassment and sexual harassment leading to a hostile environment, which underpins the findings and resolution. And the draconian measures listed appear to be a product of Volokh's imagination since none of the scenarios he lists are even mentioned in the letter.

 

Possibly they didn't expect people to read it it. It is a rather lengthy and loquacious legal document (evidently written by someone who was being paid by the word) with various references to other document and indirectly includes documents that include definitions from places like here, here and here; where some or all of those listed items are explicitly stated.

 

Granted, it would take a reasonable person days or weeks to unravel the the maze of legalese created here, but I don't think what's being parsed out by Volokh is at all an unreasonable interpretation.

 

Further, it is not and unprecedented approach to attempt to bury the needle of a much wider and broader interpretative framework within the haystack of legalese that mostly seems reasonable and proper. This happens all the time with bills/laws, etc.

 

I don't disagree that the scenario you describe happens, but I do disagree that this letter represents a maze of legalese. Its basic findings and recommendations (or in some cases requirements) are quite clear on a single careful reading. I very much doubt that Volokh misunderstood it if he actually read it, in which case I'd have to conclude that he is being disingenuous in his analysis. The blog site was possibly over eager to run with that analysis.

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post #2498 of 2499
5/13/13 at 9:04pm

Okay.

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post #2499 of 2499
5/14/13 at 4:27am

Everyone lies that is the norm now in the government.
 

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