Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

I have no respect for someone asking for redistribution or "shared prosperity," or crying that Uncle Sam shouldn't raise his tax bill. Fuck both of them. You suffer what you allow yourself to suffer.

You most definitely will not like Reich's policy proposals. But you should read his book anyway.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by ironweed

This is good, because Adder is forming a revolutionary army and we're going to need a Northeast flying column for active operations. I'll be in touch once we raid PEnske's armory.

And it's "how you gonna come?" which rhymes better with "gun," even though it's probably causing sniggering somewhere right now - you know who you are.

First Alaska, then Delaware...

Before you know it, KENTUCKY!

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

When they kick in your front door, how you going to go? Hands on your head, or on the trigger of your gun?

I don't know about you, but I plan to be on the kicking in side rather than the going side.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by ironweed

This is good, because Adder is forming a revolutionary army and we're going to need a Northeast flying column for active operations. I'll be in touch once we raid PEnske's armory.

And it's "how you gonna come?" which rhymes better with "gun," even though it's probably causing sniggering somewhere right now - you know who you are.

is this one correct? "i believe in this and its been tested by research,
he who fucks nuns will later join the church."

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I don't know about you, but I plan to be on the kicking in side rather than the going side.

you already are. duh.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

is this one correct? "i believe in this and its been tested by research,
he who fucks nuns will later join the church."

Don't worry, I think a Roman collar will suit you. Very distinguished.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

you already are. duh.

Indeed. Last week, Ty and I bashed in Governor Sanford's door and poured buckets of cash on Sanford and his floozy so South Carolina could extend unemployment benefits. I still remember the two of them, naked in a hot tub full of cash with a bottle of champagne, screaming "This is Oppression!"

I'm trying to convince Sidd next week to kick in the door of a poor single mother with a kid with a potentially fatal preexisting condition and give them health care. God only knows how they will scream!

[Gattigap]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Steven Colbert testifies before Congress this morning:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/new...congress_1.php

Good stuff.

"Corn packer."

[LessinSF]

I love this - a company putting its money where its beliefs are.http://volokh.com/2010/09/24/lethal-...ject/#comments

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

I love this - a company putting its money where its beliefs are.http://volokh.com/2010/09/24/lethal-...ject/#comments

Unfortunately, Virginia still had enough to kill a borderline retarded woman who hired men to kill her husband and son while, amazingly, the triggermen only received life sentences. I'm no student of the competing interest analyses courts and prosecutors go through in assessing who receives a death sentence, but a rule directing that no member of a murder conspiracy should receive a sentence more severe than the actual immediate killer(s) seems the least they can do to ensure come consistency and logic in the process.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I don't know about you, but I plan to be on the kicking in side rather than the going side.

Whose door do you plan to kick in? And under what delusion do you conclude your bourgeoise ass would be welcomed on the side of the "revolutionaries"?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Adder

You most definitely will not like Reich's policy proposals. But you should read his book anyway.

You've piqued my interest, and I like his writing. I'll buy it.

Right now I am slogging through Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano.

Do not delve into This Time It's Different. It's a motherlode of stats, but it repeats and repeats and repeats... And every other page is a fucking chart embroidered with line after line of 8pt font notations.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

You've piqued my interest, and I like his writing. I'll buy it.

Right now I am slogging through Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano.

Do not delve into This Time It's Different. It's a motherlode of stats, but it repeats and repeats and repeats... And every other page is a fucking chart embroidered with line after line of 8pt font notations.

If you do that sort of thing (and I do), reich's book worked pretty well as an audiobook as it is not particularly technical.

[Penske 2.0]

Originally Posted by ironweed

And it's "how you gonna come?" which rhymes better with "gun," even though it's probably causing sniggering somewhere right now - you know who you are.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Unfortunately, Virginia still had enough to kill a borderline retarded woman who hired men to kill her husband and son while, amazingly, the triggermen only received life sentences. I'm no student of the competing interest analyses courts and prosecutors go through in assessing who receives a death sentence, but a rule directing that no member of a murder conspiracy should receive a sentence more severe than the actual immediate killer(s) seems the least they can do to ensure come consistency and logic in the process.

Your rule would produce some absurdities, you must admit -- like contract killers with a justification defense passing it up to the employer or an entitlement to a second degree instruction while the guy buying the hit gets a free ride on it.

Come to think of it, you may have hit upon the one area of sentencing reform favored by Republicans -- the guy buying the hit is also entitled to the defenses, gratis, including any reductions for cooperation, even if he doesn't.

Virginia's DP statute might be messed up, but this case hasn't provided the best evidence of that -- unless I'm reading the wrong Slate bloggers on it.