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Jack Thompson Spams Utah Senate, May Face Legal Action
eldavojohn writes "Yesterday, GamePolitics ran an interesting story about the Utah Senate President threatening Jack Thompson with the CAN-SPAM Act. You might recall Utah being Jack's last hope and hold-out after being disbarred in Florida and more or less made a mockery everywhere else. Well, from Utah's Senate Site, we get the picture of what Jack is up to now: spamming his last friends on the planet. The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting on Senate President Michael Waddoups' statements: 'I asked you before to remove me from your mailing list. I supported your bill but because of the harassment will not again. If I am not removed, I will turn you over to the AG for legal action.' The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Waddoups confirmed on Tuesday that he would attempt to pursue legal action under the federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 against Jack Thompson."
You made a mistake... Yankees fans should be first on that list.
Mets are by far the better NY team. B-Mets home-opener day is tomorrow! Too bad I'm not in Bingo to go cheer them on.
"Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home" - Cicero
As a matter of fact, I do. I'm frankly sick of the right wing and what they've done to this country the last 8 years. It's about time the left started getting vocal again so we aren't drowned out by the 'righteous'.
Don't confuse the "right wing" with the religious nutjobs. They are control freaks, whereas most of us in the right wing don't care if you smoke marijuana while watching tv, have orgies in your bedroom, or worship pagan gods.
We believe in small government and lots of individual liberty.
Oh good lord, the insane idiocy of some people, sorry, but your statement *is* both insane and idiotic, so don't blame me for pointing it out.
The right is *by definition* control freaks. By definition the right are fans of big government. Hell, theocratic feudalism is the canonical right wing government. You can not have a small right wing government. You can have a *Liberal* government which is what you are attempting to describe as "right wing", but that's the center.
Here's the breakdown so hopefully you quit repeating this idiotic nonsense which is pure fox news propaganda:
Liberalism: "We hold this truth to be self evident, that all men are created equal".
Left: Fundamentally agrees with that one sentence description of Liberalism, but goes further and thinks the power of the state should be used against the individual to enforce that equality.
Right: Fundamentally disagrees with that sentence and feels instead that certain elites are born superior to the masses (generally based on race or religion) and that the power of the state should be used against the individual in order to enforce that inequality.
Liberalism, of course, doesn't think the power of the state should be used against the individual *at all*.
So, no it is not at all in any way shape or form the case that Left = big government and Right = small government. That you would even say something that obviously stupid is really pretty fucking sad.
Hell look at America today. Far extreme right wing government since the 80s and we're robbing the citizens blind to pay the already wealthy and powerful for their *incompetence*. That is pure 100% right wing in every aspect by definition. That's what the right wing is, Sparky, and that's what ther right wing has always been. That you've been duped into pretending that Liberalism is magically the right now and that the right just fucking vanished into thin air as you absolutely are claiming is really deeply pathetic. With your stupid blatantly false definitions, you do not even have a word in your vocabulary to describe your own fucking government. Think long and hard about that fact, Sparky.
Seriously, please pull your head out of your ass and at least learn what the fucking words you use to describe yourself even mean. You're a Classical Liberal through and through if your description of what you believe is honest, and that means that the right is diametrically opposed to everything you believe in by fucking definition.
Nope, right wing economically simply means things such as capitalism, private control of the means of production and so on - as opposed to left wing, which is ideas such as socialism, state funded production, and so on.
No, it does not. You described *Liberalism*. The right is diametrically opposed to liberalism.
Right wing economically means corporate control of the government, the current bailout scam we're seeing, feudalism, threocracy, corporatism, fascism etc.
If you're that far out of touch with reality, that you not only think something that stupid, but you spout it out in public forums then I doubt you'll actually have nay interest in knowing what you're talking about though, so I doubt this is worth my time to even try and help you learn to think.
Quite how you get from that to "big government", I frankly I have no idea. Laissez-faire capitalism and libertarianism are right wing with small Government. Communism would be an example of left wing with big Government.
I don't You described *Liberalism* That is not the right wing. In your deeply ignorant and stupid set of definitions, there isn't a word left to describe what actually is the right wing. Hell, where do the massive corporate bailouts fit into your ignorant idiocy? Hot tip, idiot, you've defined our current reality out of existence..or at least left us with no word to describe our current form of government.
Now, pull your head out of your ass for a minute and think that through. Now think about the fact that it's easily described using those words as if they actually meant what they've always meant.
Seriously, it's that easy to realize how fucking stupid your redefinitions of these concepts are.
Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain Mussolini's Italy are all examples of right wing big government. You can't have an authoritarian pro elite small government, idiot. That requires a big government to rob the masses of the people to further enrich the already rich, idiot. That's what the right wing is, you fucking ignorant fool. Pull your head out of your ass and go figure out where the terms left and right came from you ignorant fool.
Liberal - as opposed to authoritarianism - is a independent axis to being economically left or right wing. You could be liberal centre, liberal left wing, or liberal right wing.
Only if you go with the Nolan chart which is an idiotic way to look at things as it takes Hitler and Stalin and lumps them together as the same thing, when they are polar opposite extremes in reality.
Again, you are using definitions that do not map at all to reality. That is idiotic.
I suspect you are confusing concepts such as right-wing and liberal, with the fact that some people have overloaded these terms to mean very specific things. So some people use right-wing to mean authoritarianism - but other people use left-wing in the same sense.
No, that would be you who is doing that.
I'm using the terms for what they mean. Left and right *are* both authoritarian by definition and always have been, neither can achieve their goals without authoritarianism. So anybody, like yourself, who tries to redefine these terms to pretend that one of these evils is good and the other is the only evil (Think, Sparky. This is what you are doing, and it is all that can be accomplished by what you're doing. You sure as hell cannot have a rational discussion about the current state of the US government using your definitions as you have redefined the necessary terms) has proven themselves to be deeply ignorant.
I know it's nice to pretend that everyone's views can be pigeon-holed into a one dimensional axis, so that you can argue against straw men, but the real world doesn't work that way.
It's not one dimensional, idiot. Pull your head out of your ass, and actually try applying the definitions of those terms to reality. You will see immediately that your de