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  1. Re:What are they going to ban next? on House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think your cologne is discourteous. We need to make cologne on airplanes illegal. So is your flatulence, let's make that illegal too. Also, your political views, let's make those illegal and not just on airplanes, but you are still free to practice them in your home. For now.

  2. Re:What are they going to ban next? on House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls · · Score: 4, Funny

    I take it by your tagline, that you can't win this argument.

  3. Re:In other words; don't let the plebs annoy us on House Committee Approves Bill Banning In-Flight Phone Calls · · Score: 2

    No shit. Why can't the airlines just develop no phone talking policies. Do we really need to make this a law?

  4. Re:It's incredibly frustrating... on US Democrats Introduce Bill To Restore Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    No, the ACA's problem is that it is authoritarian, partisan bullshit that didn't see the light of day until after it was passed. Making it more authoritarian, would have only made it worse. Please, don't vote anymore and don't come back. I was with you until you declared single payer as the solution.

  5. Re:It's incredibly frustrating... on US Democrats Introduce Bill To Restore Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    You are part of the problem. If the people I had voted for had won, the ACA implementation would have been halted, and the country would be better off because of it.

  6. Re:Cost on Ugly Trends Threaten Aviation Industry · · Score: 1

    What makes you think only the top 1% benefitted? Have you seriously looked at any numbers about this?

  7. Re:Cost on Ugly Trends Threaten Aviation Industry · · Score: 2

    That just makes no sense. If incomes are stagnant, and inflation is a factor, the last thing you would want to do is turn assets into cash. Of course, common sense conflicts with your world view, but keep thinking the way you do.

  8. Re:Why gouv pay for it in the first place? on Oil Companies Secretly Got Paid Twice For Cleaning Up Toxic Fuel Leaks · · Score: 2

    When a person in Louisiana has their house destroyed by a hurricane, are they double dipping when they receive an insurance settlement and also accept government assistance? No?

  9. A third party holding the data... on Can Commercial Storage Services Handle the NSA's Metadata? · · Score: 1

    ...at the request of the State is working as an Agent of the State. As an Agent of the State, it is required to meet the exact same 4th Amendment requirements as the State itself. This whole argument is ridiculous. President Obama should be laughed out of office for seriously considering this proposal. Constitutional Law professor, indeed!

  10. Re: "Not Reproduclibe" on GOP Bill To Outlaw EPA 'Secret Science' That Is Not Transparent, Reproducible · · Score: 1

    DIdn't the EPA already have these medical records, as it used the data in a study? How did the EPA get them? Why are you not complaining about that? I can't read the full article behind the paywall.

  11. Re: "Not Reproduclibe" on GOP Bill To Outlaw EPA 'Secret Science' That Is Not Transparent, Reproducible · · Score: 1

    Hah. You guys support a government takeover of our health care system, and you're complaining that suddenly they want access to our medical records? Where did you think this whole fiasco would lead? It's only going to get worse. Much worse.

  12. Re: "Not Reproduclibe" on GOP Bill To Outlaw EPA 'Secret Science' That Is Not Transparent, Reproducible · · Score: 0

    I see. Open reproducible science is a good thing in theory. But when it comes to mitigating climate change, full on totalitarianism is the medicine required.

  13. Re:It's incredibly frustrating... on US Democrats Introduce Bill To Restore Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry, Medicaid is not an acceptable solution for me. It isn't an acceptable for most people, and if they were told this would happen this law wouldn't have passed. I'm glad you are willing to cede control over your health insurance to a bureaucrat, but don't assume everyone else is, and I most certainly am not.

  14. Re:It's incredibly frustrating... on US Democrats Introduce Bill To Restore Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    I want choice. I want the promise made to me upheld. I want to at least be able to buy health insurance on the exchange like I was told we would be able to do. Now I can only obtain insurance from the place where a politician says I am allowed to obtain it from. I didn't need help until this albatross of a law went into effect.

  15. Re:It's incredibly frustrating... on US Democrats Introduce Bill To Restore Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Is that what the promise was? If you like your insurance, we'll price it out of your reach, not allow you to buy insurance on the exchange and force you to take welfare? How would you feel if someone did that to you? Fuck you fascist, you're part of the problem.

  16. Re:It's incredibly frustrating... on US Democrats Introduce Bill To Restore Net Neutrality · · Score: 2

    I do buy my own individual insurance. Dean Care. 250%. The coverage actually worsened. I am self-employed, involved in a startup, and do not have enough income to enroll in the Federal Exchange. If I want subsidized insurance, I am required to enroll in medicaid. So this is a big Fuck You to anyone who thinks the ACA is good for people that want to leave their jobs and start a company.

  17. Re:It's incredibly frustrating... on US Democrats Introduce Bill To Restore Net Neutrality · · Score: 0

    Sure... just like they enforced my individual rights with my health insurance (and in the process destroying my ability to afford it). I'll pass. Every time the government starts to talk about imposed equality, things start to get way more expensive and go to shit.

  18. Re:It's incredibly frustrating... on US Democrats Introduce Bill To Restore Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    They are standing in opposition to federally imposed net neutrality. Individual freedom means exercising your rights as a consumer.

  19. Re:and the TSA exists because... on Confessions Of an Ex-TSA Agent: Secrets Of the I.O. Room · · Score: 2

    As the head of the executive branch he is ultimately responsible for enforcing it. He could stop it with a phone call. I did not say a liberals view everything through the lens of race; i would never disparage liberals in such a demeaning fashion. You are making the mistake of assuming those on the left are actually liberal.

  20. Re:Greetings from your new foe.... on Confessions Of an Ex-TSA Agent: Secrets Of the I.O. Room · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He was responsible for renewing the Patriot Act in 2011. He was responsible for the scanners going into airports. He is responsible for every stupid policy that the TSA has. He is the leader of this country whether he wants to be or not, and he should act like it, grow a pair, and use some of his new affinity for executive action to actually do something that improves our way of life rather than impede it. Bush who?

  21. Re:and the TSA exists because... on Confessions Of an Ex-TSA Agent: Secrets Of the I.O. Room · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No, it's only acceptable for the TSA to grab children's crotches and make women drink their own breast milk because we have a Democrat in the white house.

  22. Re:Do my taxes for me, then on Federal Agency Data-Mining Hundreds of Millions of Credit Card Accounts · · Score: 1

    Can you think of a situation where a store lowering the price of a product can increase revenue and profit? Yeah? Now tell me why the last paragraph in you post makes no sense.

  23. Re:Upon orders of His Majesty on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 2

    No, people are black when it fits the desired political narrative ala Obama. People can also be white when it fits the political narrative ala George Zimmerman. To the left, everything is viewed through the lens of race. The politcal value of a story is dictated by the subject. A black, poor, sexually unique person is at one side of the spectrum (the indisputibly good side), and a white, rich, male is on the other (the indisputibly evil side). Everybody falls on this scale and it is to be the primary factor used in judging someone's life story or worth to society..

  24. Re:Upon orders of His Majesty on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 2

    The first black President will never be impeached. It does not matter what he does.

  25. Re:The Other Five Party/Districts on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 1

    You're right. This unwarranted persecution of Clapper is so unfair. The question you should be asking is why only one Democrat?