If you practice abstinence (as promoted by the church) you do not need birth control (as condemned by the church). You are taking everything out of context, assclown.
My point was that it would be best to keep the darn thing in a faraday cage at all times (except when at passport checkpoints, where you would take it out only briefly).
Sorry, but you are incorrect in your assumption that the US is not a democracy. It is a democratic republic. Those people in the legislatures are supposed to represent the people. Legislators who follow a pure trustee mentality are not long in office.
Your argument about not answering to constituents would have held more sway back before senators were directly chosen by the voters of the states.
However, regardless of what you believe original intent was, legislators do answer to their constituents. Your idea that they should only abandon the trustee mentality near elections is not pragmatic for representatives. The public, while not equipped with the greatest collective memory, can remember what happened a year and a half ago if it was objectionable. Senators, on the other hand, have some wiggle room between elections. Representatives don't, because they are in perpetual reelection cycles.
You cannot dismiss political reality and only look at legal ideology my friend. You seem to be arguing from an ideological normative view concerned purely with governance. We are going to go around in circle forever because I am arguing from a realist's pragmatic view of someone concerned both with elections, which give politicians the ability to govern, and with governance itself. You seem to be coming from a trustee perspective, whereas I am coming from a delegate perspective. Oil and water would mix better.:-)
Someone's forgetting the elastic clause, which works quite nicely with the commerce clause to give the federal government authority over business practices...
You also have to look at his district demographic. Michigan 2 is arguably one of the most religious/conservative districts in the nation, and he can't alienate the electorate, which would be political suicide.
Heh. France screwed itself over by not being able to cope with blitz tactics, and relying on a fortified line which was bypassed by going through Benelux (remind anyone of WW1?)
France had abyssimal air power compared to the Germans. They could have killed Nazi Germany while it was in the early stages of re arming, but they chose not to. They paid the price for forcing the treaty of Versailles on Germany, with all its reperations, which kept the Democratic Wiemar Republic (sp?) so weak that it was easily overtaken by the National Socialists.
The League of Nations was a joke. It was even more impotent than the present UN. Having the US in it would not have changed that.
A good legislator (at least on the national level) has decent staffers who know a great deal about the issue areas they are assigned (I know, because I interned for Congressman Hoekstra during part of the spring of 2003, and his staffers really knew their stuff). I would hope that level of competency applies to all the offices on Capitol Hill.
If you want to kill yourself, that's YOUR choice. Not your mom's.
Wow, poor time to bring this up Mr. Conservative, as your party sides with the delusional parents of Terry Schiavo and decimates her wishes to let her body die long after her mind and soul already has.
Conservatives don't hold the view that it is your right to kill yourself. Libertarians do. Also, the only person who claims that Ms Schiavo said she wanted to die is the one person who stands the most to gain from her death.
But how are we going to measure asteroids and meteors now that the larger imperial unit (Libraries of Congress) is going to get smallers? Will we have to fall back to the smaller unit (VW Beetles) for all of them now?
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Ah... I got warm memories thinking about battledrome (the forerunner to the earthsiege line of games). I miss my judicator.
With its top speed, you would be better of walking using your own two legs...
(all you amputees can bite me)
IIRC the supreme court interprets said document, and has allowed for the regulation of political speech.
What I want to know is on what authority a municipality thinks it has the right to limit political speech. Only congress can do that.
If you practice abstinence (as promoted by the church) you do not need birth control (as condemned by the church). You are taking everything out of context, assclown.
My point was that it would be best to keep the darn thing in a faraday cage at all times (except when at passport checkpoints, where you would take it out only briefly).
Someone is going to need a faraday cage.
Sorry, but you are incorrect in your assumption that the US is not a democracy. It is a democratic republic. Those people in the legislatures are supposed to represent the people. Legislators who follow a pure trustee mentality are not long in office.
:-)
Your argument about not answering to constituents would have held more sway back before senators were directly chosen by the voters of the states.
However, regardless of what you believe original intent was, legislators do answer to their constituents. Your idea that they should only abandon the trustee mentality near elections is not pragmatic for representatives. The public, while not equipped with the greatest collective memory, can remember what happened a year and a half ago if it was objectionable. Senators, on the other hand, have some wiggle room between elections. Representatives don't, because they are in perpetual reelection cycles.
You cannot dismiss political reality and only look at legal ideology my friend. You seem to be arguing from an ideological normative view concerned purely with governance. We are going to go around in circle forever because I am arguing from a realist's pragmatic view of someone concerned both with elections, which give politicians the ability to govern, and with governance itself. You seem to be coming from a trustee perspective, whereas I am coming from a delegate perspective. Oil and water would mix better.
Someone's forgetting the elastic clause, which works quite nicely with the commerce clause to give the federal government authority over business practices...
Well, then I must say that you are a fool. Politicians answer to their constituents, not you and your subjective opinion alone.
You also have to look at his district demographic. Michigan 2 is arguably one of the most religious/conservative districts in the nation, and he can't alienate the electorate, which would be political suicide.
Well argued. It is nice to see some rationality in this.
Heh. France screwed itself over by not being able to cope with blitz tactics, and relying on a fortified line which was bypassed by going through Benelux (remind anyone of WW1?)
France had abyssimal air power compared to the Germans. They could have killed Nazi Germany while it was in the early stages of re arming, but they chose not to. They paid the price for forcing the treaty of Versailles on Germany, with all its reperations, which kept the Democratic Wiemar Republic (sp?) so weak that it was easily overtaken by the National Socialists.
The League of Nations was a joke. It was even more impotent than the present UN. Having the US in it would not have changed that.
A good legislator (at least on the national level) has decent staffers who know a great deal about the issue areas they are assigned (I know, because I interned for Congressman Hoekstra during part of the spring of 2003, and his staffers really knew their stuff). I would hope that level of competency applies to all the offices on Capitol Hill.
Have you ever tried loading a gun w/o using your thumbs?
Humans are different. We have the guns, and the opposable thumbs with which to use them.
Lawyers will fix this!
If you want to kill yourself, that's YOUR choice. Not your mom's.
Wow, poor time to bring this up Mr. Conservative, as your party sides with the delusional parents of Terry Schiavo and decimates her wishes to let her body die long after her mind and soul already has.
Conservatives don't hold the view that it is your right to kill yourself. Libertarians do. Also, the only person who claims that Ms Schiavo said she wanted to die is the one person who stands the most to gain from her death.
What are you talking about?! Men never have admin privs on a woman's box.
No, you're the ass. Just look at your UID.
But how are we going to measure asteroids and meteors now that the larger imperial unit (Libraries of Congress) is going to get smallers? Will we have to fall back to the smaller unit (VW Beetles) for all of them now?
Mein MG-08 ist wunderbar!
You forget that there exists these things called primary elections. They let you choose who gets to run on the party label for what position...
You also seem to have overlooked the ability in many states to do direct democratic voting on some propostions.
You might just dream you are swimming in a warm ocean. Or hot tubbing. Yeah, hot tubbing...
Am I the only one that read it "Joke-e-oke makes you Canadian?"