I don't give a rat's ass about this issue, but the idea of judges claiming century+ old documents somehow protect gay marriage is beyond disturbing to me.
Because you're ignorant of the Equal Protection clause, or because you're a bigot?
However, letting the courts make new laws when the people have voted... that might.
Willful ignorance, or just another bigot? The 14th Amendment is not a new law. Neither are the state constitutions where their protections have been found to cover gay rights.
Are you old enough to have been spouting this BS when Brown v Board of Education was being handed down? How about Loving v Virginia?
That's an easy one. Executive level pay is the only one that has year on year out stripped inflation by several magnitudes, and has done for the last 30 years. Everyone else's wages has remained for all intents and purposes, exactly the same.
Exactly. That, and:
Executives always get their bonuses and double digit increases in compensation regardless of actual performance. See: Carly Fiorina, CEO of Home Depot getting raises at the same time the stock was falling, every single banker under the sun...
Executives never have to enter the race-to-the-bottom game of "someone will do your job for less money". U.S. programmers and engineers are supposed to compete with third world markets or see their jobs offshored - but you never see a Larry Ellison getting replaced by a cheap executive with an CS/MBA background from Bangladesh.
U.S. workers have to compete with third world wages, without the benefits of third world prices. It might not be so bad getting our pay cut to match levels in India if we had the benefit of India's prices on housing, food, and health care.
The founders of the US didn't want direct democracy because they were wrongfully afraid of rule by what they smeared as an uneducated mob, because they were a bunch of elitists.
Fixed that up a bit.
Unfortunately, the uneducated mob elects uneducated representatives
Not just more elitism, but misplaced elitism. Our current clusterf*** of a government has little to do with our education level, and a lot to do with it being completely co-opted by corporate interests. And those corporate interests investing in the status quo (Obomney) while marginalizing any possible threats to it (dumping on or ignoring Paul/Dean/Edwards/Stein/Johnson/Occupy).
Except when it isn't. I kept my mouth shut when a cop tried to interrogate me at a sobriety checkpoint and that led to my being beaten, nearly strangled to death, and brought up on enough false charges to put me in jail for 3-5 years.
Except that's a tautology. Plenty of people get the shit beaten out of them (or worse) despite complying with a hyper-aggressive cop's demands. All the time.
And obviously you had a run-in with a hyper-aggressive cop....
I mean, he was twenty six years old and at some point you have to start being responsible for your actions.
"Responsible" like being threatened with decades in jail for something that, at most, merited community service? Why not just chop his hand off a la Saudi Arabia?
It's the definition of distortion. The government is importing workers as a deliberate policy.
Something you regularly hear on slashdot is that recruiters are saying that they can't find the IT talent they need, but they are just lying so they can get H-1B visa's because there is more IT talent in the US than demand. This is wrong on so many levels.
It's reality.
Under a "free" market, if a skill is in demand, then the companies looking for those skills will offer more and more money until that demand is met. If this is not a short-term need, then more workers will seek education or training to learn those skills.
Importing H1-B's directly interferes with that, to the detriment of our own workers. First, because increasing the labor pool creates a downward pressure on wages. Secondly, because young Americans looking to enter the work force (or older Americans looking at a second career) have a disincentive to pursue those skills. Why risk impoverishing yourself, for life, with student loans for an engineering degree when Microsoft will just hire an H1-B for less money? Which then feeds into corporate propaganda that we "don't have enough skilled workers" so we need to import some more H1-B's from Bangladesh.
If your government had a deliberate policy of importing temporary workers (not immigrants) to compete for your jobs and depress your wages, would you be happy about that?
If he had been tried 4 months after the documents were posted on Wikileaks, Manning would have been found guilty of every charge the governments made, and then sentenced to life in prison.
Why do you say that? Did you know for a fact that the judge and jury was made up of a bunch of bloodthirsty sadists such as yourself:
Personally, I still think he should be shot, and have his severed head mounted on a pike
That go for everyone else that has broken the laaaaaw, or just the dirty fucking hippies? You want the heads of Cheney, Rove, Libby, and Armitage on pikes for leaking Plame's identity? High-ranking members of both the Bush and Obama administrations for ignoring FISA laws and the UN Convention Against Torture?
65 M.J. 69 (the regulatory speedy trial standard set forth in RCM 707 requires that an accused be brought to trial within 120 days of preferral of charges, imposition of restraint, or entry onto active duty, whichever is earliest; an accused is brought to trial within the meaning of the Rule at arraignment; if charges are dismissed, the clock stops and a new 120-day period begins upon re-preferral of charges).
Lets say I assert that you like to set puppies on fire. Now, is it my job to prove that assertion, or your responsibility to disprove it?
It's the job of those accusing Manning of leaking Top Secret documents - not just classified - and revealing the names of informants to back up their assertions. They've never been able to do so. And they would, if they could, which means they are full of shit.
So sorry, it was all secret. Maybe you think it shouldn't be, but it is. It is all classified by default since the government understand that the diplomats must be able to talk freely among themselves to effectively do their job.
Could you have a less relevant response? No one was saying the documents Manning allegedly leaked weren't classified - that's your straw man. The point is that is that willfully ignorant authoritarians have been spreading myths: that the documents were Top Secret and that the names of informants were revealed.
Refer instead to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
By all means.
The UCMJ requires trials within 120 days. Manning past that years ago. The UCMJ also forbids unlawful command influence - which Obama committed when he publicly pronounced Manning guilty, since as CiC is the boss of the prosecution and the judge. Funny how the "but Manning broke the laaaaaaaw" types don't care about that.
Manning indiscriminately leaked an enormous amount of classified materials including details of our military tactics, names of our Iraqi and Afghan allies and spies, classified diplomatic cables revealing our diplomatic strategies etc etc.
Which is bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, and bullshit. Respectively. No top secret documents were leaked, nor names of spies.
Repeating Big Lies doesn't make them true. It just makes you a bigger liar.
Sometimes a citizen has a moral obligation to break a law
It's being a whistleblower.
but to say the military should just overlook his law-breaking sounds
And all the law breaking unveiled by Manning's alleged leaks? Where is the Concern for the law in Manning's treatment? Under the UCMJ he's supposed to get a trial within 120 days, AND be free of unlawful command influence. Which Obama committed when he pronounced Manning guilty.
We can talk about prosecuting Manning after Bush and Obama are in the Hague for war crimes. Anything else is garbage.
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When did the HRC lobby to get a law passed blacklisting Card? Oh, that hasn't actually happened?
Then WTF are you talkin about, Willis?
Right, because using your free speech rights and your wallet is totally the same thing as being discriminated against.
Idiot.
Because you're ignorant of the Equal Protection clause, or because you're a bigot?
You're one to talk.
Willful ignorance, or just another bigot? The 14th Amendment is not a new law. Neither are the state constitutions where their protections have been found to cover gay rights.
Are you old enough to have been spouting this BS when Brown v Board of Education was being handed down? How about Loving v Virginia?
Exactly. That, and:
Executives always get their bonuses and double digit increases in compensation regardless of actual performance. See: Carly Fiorina, CEO of Home Depot getting raises at the same time the stock was falling, every single banker under the sun...
Executives never have to enter the race-to-the-bottom game of "someone will do your job for less money". U.S. programmers and engineers are supposed to compete with third world markets or see their jobs offshored - but you never see a Larry Ellison getting replaced by a cheap executive with an CS/MBA background from Bangladesh.
U.S. workers have to compete with third world wages, without the benefits of third world prices. It might not be so bad getting our pay cut to match levels in India if we had the benefit of India's prices on housing, food, and health care.
Fixed that up a bit.
Not just more elitism, but misplaced elitism. Our current clusterf*** of a government has little to do with our education level, and a lot to do with it being completely co-opted by corporate interests. And those corporate interests investing in the status quo (Obomney) while marginalizing any possible threats to it (dumping on or ignoring Paul/Dean/Edwards/Stein/Johnson/Occupy).
Except that's a tautology. Plenty of people get the shit beaten out of them (or worse) despite complying with a hyper-aggressive cop's demands. All the time.
And obviously you had a run-in with a hyper-aggressive cop....
"Responsible" like being threatened with decades in jail for something that, at most, merited community service? Why not just chop his hand off a la Saudi Arabia?
Including the part where the veteran detective with decades of experience said every word out of the professor's mouth was true?
Pretty much. That, and insisting on immunity before you open your mouth.
^^^ what a person ignorant of history says on a blog. Red scare, McCarthyism, loyalty oaths, Hoover tapping your phones....
It's the definition of distortion. The government is importing workers as a deliberate policy.
It's reality.
Under a "free" market, if a skill is in demand, then the companies looking for those skills will offer more and more money until that demand is met. If this is not a short-term need, then more workers will seek education or training to learn those skills.
Importing H1-B's directly interferes with that, to the detriment of our own workers. First, because increasing the labor pool creates a downward pressure on wages. Secondly, because young Americans looking to enter the work force (or older Americans looking at a second career) have a disincentive to pursue those skills. Why risk impoverishing yourself, for life, with student loans for an engineering degree when Microsoft will just hire an H1-B for less money? Which then feeds into corporate propaganda that we "don't have enough skilled workers" so we need to import some more H1-B's from Bangladesh.
It's a vicious cycle. That took years to perfect.
Funny how that never applies to the executive level.
If your government had a deliberate policy of importing temporary workers (not immigrants) to compete for your jobs and depress your wages, would you be happy about that?
Why do you say that? Did you know for a fact that the judge and jury was made up of a bunch of bloodthirsty sadists such as yourself:
That go for everyone else that has broken the laaaaaw, or just the dirty fucking hippies? You want the heads of Cheney, Rove, Libby, and Armitage on pikes for leaking Plame's identity? High-ranking members of both the Bush and Obama administrations for ignoring FISA laws and the UN Convention Against Torture?
You use a cannon or a howitzer for that projection?
Sure thing:
armfor.uscourts.gov
That's not how this works.
Lets say I assert that you like to set puppies on fire. Now, is it my job to prove that assertion, or your responsibility to disprove it?
It's the job of those accusing Manning of leaking Top Secret documents - not just classified - and revealing the names of informants to back up their assertions. They've never been able to do so. And they would, if they could, which means they are full of shit.
Could you have a less relevant response? No one was saying the documents Manning allegedly leaked weren't classified - that's your straw man. The point is that is that willfully ignorant authoritarians have been spreading myths: that the documents were Top Secret and that the names of informants were revealed.
The fact that the documents he allegedly leaked weren't classified Top Secret? It's really not that hard.
You're comparing copying a commercially released product to copying someone's DNA? Pete Hoekstra, is that you?
Hint: you're still comparing a molehill to a mountain.
Are you snarking, trolling, or willfully ignorant?
U.S. officials were told to cover up evidence of child abuse by contractors in Afghanistan.
Guantanamo prison has held mostly innocent people and low-level operatives.
U.S. Military officials withheld information about the indiscriminate killing of Reuters journalists and innocent Iraqi civilians.
Known Egyptian torturers received training from the FBI in Quantico, Virginia.
The State Department authorized the theft of the UN Secretary General's DNA.
By all means.
The UCMJ requires trials within 120 days. Manning past that years ago. The UCMJ also forbids unlawful command influence - which Obama committed when he publicly pronounced Manning guilty, since as CiC is the boss of the prosecution and the judge. Funny how the "but Manning broke the laaaaaaaw" types don't care about that.
Which is bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, and bullshit. Respectively. No top secret documents were leaked, nor names of spies.
Repeating Big Lies doesn't make them true. It just makes you a bigger liar.
It's being a whistleblower.
And all the law breaking unveiled by Manning's alleged leaks? Where is the Concern for the law in Manning's treatment? Under the UCMJ he's supposed to get a trial within 120 days, AND be free of unlawful command influence. Which Obama committed when he pronounced Manning guilty.
We can talk about prosecuting Manning after Bush and Obama are in the Hague for war crimes. Anything else is garbage.