Tweet of the Day: Ted Cruz: “Net Neutrality Is Obamacare for the Internet”

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Right wing demagogue Ted Cruz wins our Net Neutrality Tweet of the Day award, because it makes absolutely no sense yet the conservative crowd will eat it up and beg for more. Showing up soon on bumper stickers throughout Texas.

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1 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 10, 2014 10:50:53am

Mileage standards are pneumonia for pickup trucks!

2 Dr. Matt  Nov 10, 2014 10:53:02am
3 Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 10, 2014 10:53:24am

I like iossarioan’s formulation from downstairs: “X is the Y of Z”.

It’s like Jakov Smirnov’s “Eeen Amerrika, Subject Verbs Object, but in Soviet Russia, Object Verbs Subject!”

4 Skip Intro  Nov 10, 2014 10:56:16am

re: #3 Blind Frog Belly White

I like iossarioan’s formulation from downstairs: “X is the Y of Z”.

It’s like Jakov Smirnov’s “Eeen Amerrika, Subject Verbs Object, but in Soviet Russia, Object Verbs Subject!”

It’s important that X, Y, and Z have no relationship to each other.

For example, “Pounds are the millimeters of postage stamps”.

5 bill d  Nov 10, 2014 10:56:34am

OK wingnuts. If you don’t want the net to be neutral then whose side do you wish for it to favor?

6 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 10, 2014 10:56:55am
7 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 10, 2014 10:57:25am

the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.

OK, so how about the military? That’s government, isn’t it?

8 Skip Intro  Nov 10, 2014 10:57:39am

re: #5 bill d

OK wingnuts. If you don’t want the net to be neutral then whose side do you wish for it to favor?

They don’t have any idea what the term even means, but if Obama is for it, it must be really bad.

9 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 10:57:52am

If you look closely, you can actually see the telecoms yanking Ted’s strings.

10 Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 10, 2014 10:58:01am

re: #4 Skip Intro

It’s important that X, Y, and Z have no relationship with each other.

For example, “Pounds are the millimeters of postage stamps”.

Gun Control is the Everglades of wheel bearings.

11 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 10, 2014 10:58:14am
…the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.

That’s really a strange statement because Ted seems perfectly happy with government operating at whatever speed pleases the one percent.

12 Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 10, 2014 10:58:31am

re: #5 bill d

OK wingnuts. If you don’t want the net to be neutral then whose side do you wish for it to favor?

Well, duh - the rich.

13 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 10, 2014 10:58:42am

re:;
#5

OK wingnuts. If you don’t want the net to be neutral then whose side do you wish for it to favor?

On the side of jobcreaters not welfare cheats and foodstamps!!!!!111

14 Skip Intro  Nov 10, 2014 10:59:00am

When Comcast has a total monopoly over internet access in the US, what’s to stop them from injecting commercials into a Netflix feed?

15 Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 10, 2014 10:59:02am

re: #9 Targetpractice

If you look closely, you can actually see the telecoms yanking Ted’s strings.

Ted Cruz is the Pinocchio of Politicians.

16 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 10, 2014 10:59:27am

re: #4 Skip Intro

It’s important that X, Y, and Z have no relationship to each other.

For example, “Pounds are the millimeters of postage stamps”.

Feline Overlords are the interstate trucking of baking pies.

O_o

17 KerFuFFler  Nov 10, 2014 10:59:46am

Just want to remind people how important “Obamacare” is———even though single payer would have been better. My 25 year old son is in grad school and has insurance through the university. This last Summer he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer. (Fortunately it was caught early and he is doing well….)

But what is great about ACA is that after he graduates and gets a job he will be able to buy insurance without the exorbitant rates for a “previous condition”. He would probably have been essentially uninsurable even though he has had coverage his whole life.

So a big thanks to all the voters who supported democrats to get ACA passed. I just hope the new Congress and SCOTUS don’t dismantle it!

18 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 10, 2014 11:00:17am
19 lawhawk  Nov 10, 2014 11:01:46am

Ted Cruz is the Dumbass.. no wait, that’s actually true.

20 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 11:02:23am

I oppose net neutrality! If my cable provider wants to charge me a fee just to use the Netflix account I’m already paying to subscribe to, then that’s their right!

21 makeitstop  Nov 10, 2014 11:02:45am

Ted Cruz is the rat poison to common sense.

22 bill d  Nov 10, 2014 11:03:02am

re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Whatever it takes to get rid of all of those cringeworthy Bill Cowher TimeWarner ads I’m for.

23 Skip Intro  Nov 10, 2014 11:04:35am

Republicans are the TIme Machine to the Middle Ages.

Nope. Doesn’t work because it almost makes sense and the last two terms are related.

24 Floral Giraffe  Nov 10, 2014 11:04:38am
the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.

No the internet should fly free, without idiots regulating it.

25 Charles Johnson  Nov 10, 2014 11:05:04am
26 Skip Intro  Nov 10, 2014 11:05:43am

re: #25 Charles Johnson

See, this is harder than it first appears.

27 Kragar  Nov 10, 2014 11:06:36am
28 Skip Intro  Nov 10, 2014 11:07:53am

re: #27 Kragar

No, it’s even stupider because it’s the exact opposite of what Net Neutrality is.

Maybe John of Orange is upset because child pornography is illegal.

29 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 10, 2014 11:09:12am

re: #14 Skip Intro

When Comcast has a total monopoly over internet access in the US, what’s to stop them from injecting commercials into a Netflix feed?

Or anything else for that matter. How’d you like to watch a commercial for disposable douches before you get to LGF? They will, however, offer you their DoubleplusGood! Commercial-free package for only $300/mo.*

*Special low introductory rate good for twelve months after the start of service. Offer not good in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa or any other place that we don’t serve because they don’t have enough money anyway.

30 Internet Tough Guy  Nov 10, 2014 11:09:13am

re: #27 Kragar

Like DARPA, for example.

31 brennant  Nov 10, 2014 11:09:24am

It is going to be a long 2 years. Very, very long.

32 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 11:09:52am

re: #27 Kragar

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Then who should, John? A private agency that answers to its stockholders and thus to whoever offers the most money?

Yeah, I can just see that now.

“Internet Regulation Agency approves TimeWarner banning Netflix access to its customers.”

33 Decatur Deb  Nov 10, 2014 11:09:53am

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Follow

#DefinitionsByTedCruz Ted Cruz is the Joe McCarthy of Texas.

Except that McCarthy actually did put on a uniform and fly on at least some of the combat missions he claimed.

34 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 10, 2014 11:10:16am

re: #31 brennant

It is going to be a long 2 years. Very, very long.

We’ll be lucky to survive with our IQs intact.

35 Charles Johnson  Nov 10, 2014 11:10:54am

The private sector has done such a great job of innovating the Internet that the US has slower connection speeds at much higher prices than many other countries. Instead of investing in the infrastructure for better service the cable Internet companies are hunkering down and trying to bilk as much money out of their customers as possible, and they’re opposed to net neutrality for the obvious reason that it will prevent them from making mega-deals with larger corporations to guarantee them faster access.

It’s a textbook example of private enterprise out of control and reactionary, and the President’s right, the Internet isn’t just a luxury any more - for many it’s a necessity.

36 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 10, 2014 11:11:09am

re: #29 Higgs Boson’s Mate

37 ramex  Nov 10, 2014 11:11:27am

Internet service provider run protection rackets… Yes, let’s strangle our access to information.

38 Decatur Deb  Nov 10, 2014 11:12:56am

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

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You get a $5 credit for browsing GoatNews.

39 Skip Intro  Nov 10, 2014 11:14:28am

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

Put Free Republic, Drudge, and Breitbart on that list and maybe some of the opponents of NN with an I.Q. larger than their waist size will start to figure it out.

40 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 10, 2014 11:14:49am

re: #38 Decatur Deb

You get a $5 credit for browsing GoatNews.

That’s only if you’re the first one there each month.

41 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 11:15:23am

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Some want to bury their heads in the sand…

42 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 10, 2014 11:16:52am

re: #35 Charles Johnson

My nearest neighbor (about 1,000 yards down the road from me) was complaining that he was only getting a 1.5 Meg connection from Windstream (our only option for a provider since we don’t even get cable here in the backwoods). I told him that the highest speed I get is 512 kbps down and 251 up because I’m at the end of the line and everybody closer to the last node is sucking up bandwidth.

He shut right the hell up with his whining.

43 Skip Intro  Nov 10, 2014 11:18:02am

re: #41 Targetpractice

Yeah, just like if I choose the cheapest Directv package I do get nothing, but it still costs me $40+ per month.

Idiots. The country is full of them, and apparently they’re the only ones who vote.

44 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 10, 2014 11:18:07am

re: #41 Targetpractice

I think most of us know that many consumers will choose “NOTHING” and new free/cheaper services will appear.

Except that the cable companies and telcos own “the last mile” to consumers. A new service would have to either go wireless or pull fiber to their customers. Either way, the startup costs would be huge. Maybe 56K will make a comeback.

45 iossarian  Nov 10, 2014 11:22:02am

“New cheaper/free services will appear” is the creationism of utility service provision.

46 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 11:23:09am

re: #44 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Except that the cable companies and telcos own “the last mile” to consumers. A new service would have to either go wireless or pull fiber to their customers. Either way, the startup costs would be huge. Maybe 56K will make a comeback.

I get the feeling too many people here in Hampton Roads have forgotten what it used to be like, when the only game in town was Cox Communications unless you lived towards the outskirts and could get somebody like Charter or Cavalier. They maintained a monopoly for decades by arguing that they owned the coax lines that ran all through the area and thus no competitor could use “their” equipment to compete at a lower cost.

Finally took Verizon investing millions in laying down fiber cable before Cox began to compete on price.

47 The Mountain That Blogs  Nov 10, 2014 11:23:17am

Lisa Simpson said it best

Youtube Video

48 iossarian  Nov 10, 2014 11:23:27am

Grampa, why don’cha have that runnin’ water?

Ah’m jus’ waitin’ for cheaper/free services to appear, Jared.

49 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 10, 2014 11:23:41am
50 Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 10, 2014 11:26:25am

The truly fucked up thing is the infrastructure for faster speeds ALREADY EXISTS. The ISPs could run way more bandwidth than what they do at a cost of exactly $0 but they are among boatloads of money at the current speeds so why bother?

Virtually every local market has been monopolized. There’s no competition.

51 bill d  Nov 10, 2014 11:26:30am

Everything will be in clouds soon and there won’t be any need for the internets at all!

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52 Kragar  Nov 10, 2014 11:28:30am
53 Skip Intro  Nov 10, 2014 11:29:38am

re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg

The truly fucked up thing is the infrastructure for faster speeds ALREADY EXISTS. The ISPs could run way more bandwidth than what they do at a cost of exactly $0 but they are among boatloads of money at the current speeds so why bother?

Virtually every local market has been monopolized. There’s no competition.

And when the cities try to install their own systems to meet the needs of the citizens, they get sued by the ISPs for “illegal” competition.

54 Ace-o-aces  Nov 10, 2014 11:29:54am
55 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 10, 2014 11:31:43am

re: #52 Kragar

“free” markets…doh…

O_o

56 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 11:34:20am

Perhaps we might ask these geniuses what do they figure would happen if the highway system were turned over to private companies. How long it would be before there was a toll road up every few miles. Or how they expect for “free/cheaper” roads to be built that will allow the same level of access and travel as the present system.

57 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 10, 2014 11:34:29am
58 Ace-o-aces  Nov 10, 2014 11:34:35am
59 Kragar  Nov 10, 2014 11:35:24am
60 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 11:37:45am

Hell, we all know that cheaper/free services come in absence of government regulation. That’s why there’s over a dozen power companies competing for my business on any given day. I just choose to get gouged by Dominion Power.

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61 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 10, 2014 11:39:34am
Writer calls the Civil War unnecessary “government violence” Rand Paul writes the foreword to his book

Yeah, those bastards at Fort Sumter should’ve never have opened fire on the peace-loving states’ rights advocates on the opposite shore.

62 Single-handed sailor  Nov 10, 2014 11:40:26am

If you like your ISP, you can keep your ISP.

63 Jenner7  Nov 10, 2014 11:40:28am
64 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 10, 2014 11:40:40am

re: #57 Backwoods_Sleuth

Writer calls the Civil War unnecessary “government violence”
Rand Paul writes the foreword to his book

and Fort Sumter was covered by Stand Your Ground…

65 klystron  Nov 10, 2014 11:41:00am

re: #62 Single-handed sailor

If you like your ISP, you can keep your ISP.

Because really, what other options do you have?

66 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 10, 2014 11:41:04am

re: #41 Targetpractice

Some want to bury their heads in the sand…

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Someone who doesn’t understand the infrastructure and sunk costs it takes to be a startup in an industry. And those barriers can be quite high in certain areas, such as utilities.

67 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 11:43:39am

re: #66 Feline Fearless Leader

Someone who doesn’t understand the infrastructure and sunk costs it takes to be a startup in an industry. And those barriers can be quite high in certain areas, such as utilities.

Indeed. Internet access is so ubiquitous to our nation that not having an online presence is treated as an anomaly. I think the average person would be hard-pressed to name a friend who doesn’t have at least an email address. Hell, anybody who’s had to go job-hunting these days knows that there’s no more paper applications out there and companies aren’t going wait on your resume to arrive by snail mail when they’ve got three other applicants who’ve sent over theirs by email.

68 urbanmeemaw  Nov 10, 2014 11:43:49am

re: #44 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Except that the cable companies and telcos own “the last mile” to consumers. A new service would have to either go wireless or pull fiber to their customers. Either way, the startup costs would be huge. Maybe 56K will make a comeback.

Or they could provide service by leasing the capacity from telcos or cable companies like Other Common Carriers provided long distance service using ATT facilities back in the day.

I would really like to know and/or understand the cost/pricing structure for providing Internet service (whether it be a telco, cable company, or ISP). Who gets charged what, and how are revenues to the telco’s applied and distributed.

69 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 10, 2014 11:45:38am

re: #67 Targetpractice

Hell, anybody who’s had to go job-hunting these days knows that there’s no more paper applications out there and companies aren’t going wait on your resume to arrive by snail mail when they’ve got three other applicants who’ve sent over theirs by email.

There are a lot of job categories that judge you heavily by your Internet presence.

70 Charles Johnson  Nov 10, 2014 11:46:41am

re: #59 Kragar

I knew as soon as I saw this that it was Napolitano. The guy is a complete paleolibertarian whack job from the school of Lew Rockwell, but for some reason he gets treated as if he were sane by the media, and not just Fox News.

71 urbanmeemaw  Nov 10, 2014 11:47:00am

re: #62 Single-handed sailor

If you like your ISP, you can keep your ISP.

“Those are some purty packets you got there. Shame if something would happen to ‘em”.

72 meteor  Nov 10, 2014 11:47:30am

re: #51 bill d

Some clouds look like bunnies.

73 makeitstop  Nov 10, 2014 11:48:35am

re: #37 ramex

Internet service provider run protection rackets… Yes, let’s strangle our access to information.

It’s all of a piece, in order to keep the stupid people stupid and keep smart people from getting good information.

How else would they vote Republican?

74 HappyWarrior  Nov 10, 2014 11:49:41am

Actually Cruz is right. Net Neturality is the Obamacare of the Internet in that it’s something that Cruz will oppose no matter what because of the President’s support for it. So yeah you’re right Ted. Thanks for sharing.

75 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak  Nov 10, 2014 11:49:48am

- WHAT
is the speed of government?

- What do you mean? An American or European government?

76 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 11:50:23am

We’re not like Iran or China! We won’t let the government tell us what we can and can’t view! We’ll let the major telecom companies do that instead!!

77 Ace-o-aces  Nov 10, 2014 11:51:00am
78 makeitstop  Nov 10, 2014 11:53:22am

re: #76 Targetpractice

We’re not like Iran or China! We won’t let the government tell us what we can and can’t view! We’ll let the major telecom companies do that instead!!

And let them charge us for doing so!

79 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 10, 2014 11:53:30am

re: #75 Islamo-Masonic Vourdalak

- WHAT
is the speed of government?

- What do you mean? An American or European government?

Ours is too loaded down with coconuts.

80 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 10, 2014 11:53:47am

re: #68 urbanmeemaw

Or they could provide service by leasing the capacity from telcos or cable companies like Other Common Carriers provided long distance service using ATT facilities back in the day.

I would really like to know and/or understand the cost/pricing structure for providing Internet service (whether it be a telco, cable company, or ISP). Who gets charged what, and how are revenues to the telco’s applied and distributed.

I worked for an ISP for several years. There are costs that are either not obvious or are company-confidential. For instance, Netflix content has to get from its servers to your ISP via backbone networks. The backbones aren’t free.

81 Single-handed sailor  Nov 10, 2014 11:53:59am

Oh boy! I can’t wait to get my Obamanet® subsidies.

82 Vicious Piebola  Nov 10, 2014 11:54:07am

I had to do some actual work & when I came back I saw my Twitter collection had a promotion and also a whole bunch of fresh Derp on #tcot to add to the collection.

They really, really believe “Net Neutrality” must be A Bad Thing because Obama is in favor of it.

83 BeachDem  Nov 10, 2014 11:54:08am

Think of science as the user agreement you have to say yes to before getting to use technology. In that contract (we know you haven’t read) is the accord that you—albeit passively—agree in evolution, climate change, vaccinations and math. Otherwise it’s a breach of contract. Go ahead and say “nu-huh,” but unless you’re reading this via candlelight in your self-made cabin, you’ve already clicked OK.

tinadupuy.com

84 Randall Gross  Nov 10, 2014 11:56:05am

Somewhere downstream in teh twitterflows someone called him “Cruz-Magon”… I have to remember that one.

85 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 10, 2014 11:56:10am

Rationality is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow of conservatism.

86 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 10, 2014 11:58:23am

yikes for the fish family…

87 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 10, 2014 12:00:32pm

re: #82 Vicious Piebola

I had to do some actual work & when I came back I saw my Twitter collection had a promotion and also a whole bunch of fresh Derp on #tcot to add to the collection.

They really, really believe “Net Neutrality” must be A Bad Thing because Obama is in favor of it.

They, including Ted Cruz, haven’t the faintest fucking idea of what Net Neutrality is all about. If Obama produced a cancer vaccine they’d reflexively oppose that too. Somewhere, Igor Pavlov is laughing his ass off.

88 Mattand  Nov 10, 2014 12:01:21pm

re: #82 Vicious Piebola

They really, really believe “Net Neutrality” must be A Bad Thing because Obama is in favor of it.

They’ve been doing this horseshit for six years and it got them control of both houses of Congress. Why change what works?

89 lawhawk  Nov 10, 2014 12:03:53pm

re: #43 Skip Intro

They’re the ones who reliably vote GOP. And that’s the Cruz crux of the problem.

90 HappyWarrior  Nov 10, 2014 12:03:59pm

re: #87 Higgs Boson’s Mate

They, including Ted Cruz, haven’t the faintest fucking idea of what Net Neutrality is all about. If Obama produced a cancer vaccine they’d reflexively oppose that too. Somewhere, Igor Pavlov is laughing his ass off.

I can see it now. Cancer vaccine is big government intrusion on life. But reflexive opposition to Obama is how Cruz and several other of these guys ran into office. If they had been around in the time of Pavlov, he wouldn’t need dogs, just GOP congresscritters.

91 withak  Nov 10, 2014 12:04:36pm

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

yikes for the fish family…

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It ain’t that bad when you can work from home. Those totals are all north of me, however.

92 Belafon  Nov 10, 2014 12:06:04pm
Showing up soon on bumper stickers throughout Texas.

Which is hilarious because one of the things Texas did was separate the owner of electrical lines from the electrical providers. If we did that to internet providers now, wingnuts would freak. If we had done that a few years ago, we wouldn’t have to have this conversation because the actual free market would take care of it.

93 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 10, 2014 12:06:58pm

re: #91 withak

It ain’t that bad when you can work from home. Those totals are all north of me, however.

dopefish said he was going to drive into work today.

94 HappyWarrior  Nov 10, 2014 12:07:05pm

Cruz’s whole political career I think is going to collapse when Obama leaves office. His whole schitick has been reflexively taking the opposing view to any position President Obama has. And if the new president is GOP, forget about it, it’ll be even worse for him.

95 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 10, 2014 12:11:35pm

re: #94 HappyWarrior

Cruz’s whole political career I think is going to collapse when Obama leaves office. His whole schitick has been reflexively taking the opposing view to any position President Obama has. And if the new president is GOP, forget about it, it’ll be even worse for him.

If he’s the GOP nominee, will he be required to reflexively oppose himself in realtime? It will be Mitt to the nth power.
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96 lawhawk  Nov 10, 2014 12:11:43pm

re: #50 Eclectic Cyborg

The truly fucked up thing is the infrastructure for faster speeds ALREADY EXISTS. The ISPs could run way more bandwidth than what they do at a cost of exactly $0 but they are among boatloads of money at the current speeds so why bother?

Virtually every local market has been monopolized. There’s no competition.

Once the fiber is laid down, once the initial costs are covered, everything else is profit (minus maintenance, which is required regardless of the form - copper, fiber, cable).

The speeds are easily attainable, but the providers see profit from pushing the prices ever higher for speeds that can be adjusted with a flick of the switch. After all, FiOS just spent all kinds of ad time and money to note that they’re now giving you same upload speeds as download speeds. 50/50, 25/25 etc.

Sure, a few people might need new routers for the highest speeds (like over 100/100), but people getting that service to start will get it as part of their packages.

At least in my area we have TWC, FiOS, and DirectTV operating against each other, but many parts of the country (and even building to building in NYC) are frequently limited to one or another provider exclusively. It’s nuts, and it means that they can play the oligopoly/monopoly game to the hilt (all while claiming that they aren’t in that very situation).

And once those teaser rates end, the providers jack up the costs knowing that they’re going to rake it in thereafter.

97 Dr. Matt  Nov 10, 2014 12:15:20pm

Without Net Neutrality, ISPs basically become the OPEC of data flowing.

98 makeitstop  Nov 10, 2014 12:15:49pm

Going OT for a song about dogs and socks.

Youtube Video

99 Vicious Piebola  Nov 10, 2014 12:17:26pm
100 BeachDem  Nov 10, 2014 12:18:50pm

re: #99 Vicious Piebola

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The internets have been won, again, by John Fugelsang. Everyone else can go home now.

101 Vicious Piebola  Nov 10, 2014 12:26:23pm

HURR HURR WE DON’T WANT A “FREE & EQUAL” INTERNET, WE WANT TO PAY MOAR FOR FASTER SPEED & PRIORITY!!!11!!!!!

102 Vicious Piebola  Nov 10, 2014 12:27:05pm

DON’T BE FOOLED!!!!! OBAMA WANTS TO TAKE AWAY ARE INTERNETS!!!11!!!!

103 bill d  Nov 10, 2014 12:29:26pm

Our internet providers should decide what type of internet service I get and how much it should costs me. Enough of this nanny state libtards!

104 Kragar  Nov 10, 2014 12:32:53pm

re: #102 Vicious Piebola

Obama wants FCC to make Internet a Public Utility

And this is a bad thing?

105 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 12:33:01pm

re: #102 Vicious Piebola

DON’T BE FOOLED!!!!! OBAMA WANTS TO TAKE AWAY ARE INTERNETS!!!11!!!!

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Yes, the President wants to make the Internet just like the power companies. Which is why I send a check every month to the state of Virginia and not the privately owned Dominion Power.

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106 Rev_Arthur_Ebolaing  Nov 10, 2014 12:33:12pm

re: #1 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Mileage standards are pneumonia for pickup trucks!

This comment is supremely under loved.

107 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 10, 2014 12:33:21pm

And now for something completely different:

109 Dr. Matt  Nov 10, 2014 12:37:30pm

Standoff reported at workplace in Norman

110 nines09  Nov 10, 2014 12:37:33pm

When ATM’s first appeared, the banks told everyone it was to “Keeps costs down, and provide you with better service everywhere.” Then it became a pain in the ass, or actually. they just figured they could make money off of it. and now they charge if you do not have an account with them. Limbaugh years ago told people that “It costs money, and who do you think you are expecting “free ATMS.” Yeah. WTF are you?. When UPC’s became the system for grocers, they all pledged that if the price was wrong at the register, they would give it to you free, or even free with your money back. just to gain trust. Not any more. If they give the big corporations the ability to choke off non paying sites and customers on the Net, it would be the end of the net as we know it. Period. I hope all those Democrats who stayed home are happy. And I hope that maybe, just maybe, some Republicans are asking themselves what they did. Who am I kidding? It’s pearls before swine and the pigs are winning.

111 Dr. Matt  Nov 10, 2014 12:45:52pm

Apparently the electoral map is replacing the Benghazi ribbon on twitter. Amazing what an election will do replace fake outrage.

112 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 10, 2014 12:50:00pm

re: #107 Higgs Boson’s Mate

And now for something completely different:[Embedded image]

Staff ID photo taking before the age of digital cameras?
;)

113 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 10, 2014 12:50:03pm

I’m confident that there’s absolutely, positively, no way that wingnuts and their backers would ever in any way make it their business to limit liberal and/or Democratic Party access to the internet should net neutrality fail to be put in place.

114 Kragar  Nov 10, 2014 12:50:27pm
115 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 10, 2014 12:54:23pm

re: #113 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’m confident that there’s absolutely, positively, no way that wingnuts and their backers would ever in any way make it their business to limit liberal and/or Democratic Party access to the internet should net neutrality fail to be put in place.

It would simply accelerate the pace by which money distorts the electoral process in our country

116 GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 10, 2014 12:55:13pm

Cruz doesn’t even know what Net Neutrality is. Actually. I think he knows exactly what it is. He’s just pandering to his ignorant base.

117 Higgs Boson's Mate  Nov 10, 2014 12:55:39pm

re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It would simply accelerate the pace by which money distorts the electoral process in our country

Well, then, there’s no way that the Supreme Court would… Never mind.

118 Kragar  Nov 10, 2014 12:57:53pm
119 Resident of The United States of Jesus  Nov 10, 2014 12:58:08pm

OT, but.

120 blueraven  Nov 10, 2014 12:58:44pm

Ha…another tweet of the day, from our old friend KT
Just the text, not embedding his tweets here. Outrage!

But if a Tea Partier misspelled a sing that would be outrageous!

Think he might have meant sign?

121 Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 10, 2014 1:00:55pm

re: #120 blueraven

Ha…another tweet of the day, from our old friend KT
Just the text, not embedding his tweets here. Outrage!

Think he might have meant sign?

Heh.

122 BlueSpotinAL  Nov 10, 2014 1:01:00pm

HITLER IS THE OBAMACARE OF DICTATORS!!!!11!

123 Saint Stephen  Nov 10, 2014 1:01:19pm

When I first looked at the headline of this post I mistakenly thought of Ted Nugent rather than Ted Cruz. But I suppose their opinions on the subject are probably pretty similar anyway.

124 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 10, 2014 1:07:55pm

re:
#111

Apparently the electoral map is replacing the Benghazi ribbon on twitter. Amazing what an election will do replace fake outrage.

Benghazi!!! will be resurrected in 2016 in time for YouKnowWho’s presidential campaign.

125 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 10, 2014 1:15:13pm

re:
#104

And this is a bad thing?

I don’t know but RedNationAZ has a TGDN hashtag which is an indication that this person has a distant relationship with reality.

126 dog philosopher  Nov 10, 2014 1:30:27pm

im late for obamacare for my stomach

127 dog philosopher  Nov 10, 2014 1:35:53pm

to be reborn, it’s necessary to in some way die first

128 Kragar  Nov 10, 2014 1:37:32pm
129 HappyWarrior  Nov 10, 2014 1:41:56pm

re: #128 Kragar

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It’s like that on many an issue. It’s why frankly conservatism as we know it is a sham philosophy in this country. Local knows best………….until local goes against us.

130 Justanotherhuman  Nov 10, 2014 1:50:40pm

Cruz may be a demagogue, but he’s a stupid demagogue.

131 Shiplord Kirel  Nov 10, 2014 1:52:02pm

Televangelist Myles Munroe, his wife, and seven others were killed yesterday when their Learjet collided with a shipping crane while attempting to land at Grand Bahama International Airport.

132 dog philosopher  Nov 10, 2014 1:54:33pm

my employer subsidized medical plan has been improved yet again

thanks, obama!

133 Decatur Deb  Nov 10, 2014 1:55:11pm

Going Rogue is the Iliad of TeaDerp.

134 Charles Johnson  Nov 10, 2014 1:58:47pm
135 Charles Johnson  Nov 10, 2014 2:00:17pm
136 Charles Johnson  Nov 10, 2014 2:01:10pm
137 William Barnett-Lewis  Nov 10, 2014 2:01:42pm

re: #131 Shiplord Kirel

Televangelist Myles Munroe, his wife, and seven others were killed yesterday when their Learjet collided with a shipping crane while attempting to land at Grand Bahama International Airport.

A Learjet. In the Bahamas. All I can say is it would seem to me that if you’re a preacher with your own Learjet you’ve missed a whole lot of the point of what you’re allegedly preaching. Or was he one of the Prosperity heresy folks?

138 Charles Johnson  Nov 10, 2014 2:03:25pm
139 Shiplord Kirel  Nov 10, 2014 2:05:27pm

re: #137 William Barnett-Lewis

A Learjet. In the Bahamas. All I can say is it would seem to me that if you’re a preacher with your own Learjet you’ve missed a whole lot of the point of what you’re allegedly preaching. Or was he one of the Prosperity heresy folks?

Don’t know a lot about him, except that he was a frequent guest on the 700 Club and was involved in some, er, controversy:

In March 2014, Munroe was criticized publicly in a press statement by Bahamian Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell for comments he had made about the government’s positions regarding the rights of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered individuals in the LGBT community in the Bahamas. Munroe had stated that Mitchell’s support of LGBT persons in the Bahamas does not “represent the majority of the convictions of the Bahamian people”. Mitchell responded by claiming, “Once again Dr. Myles Munroe has returned to a theme he does not understand and obviously which he has no knowledge.” Mitchell went on in the statement to reference what he regarded as Munroe’s “…absolute stupidity and willful deceit is parading around in the pulpit disguised as theology.”

140 Amory Blaine  Nov 10, 2014 2:05:51pm

re: #137 William Barnett-Lewis

A Learjet. In the Bahamas. All I can say is it would seem to me that if you’re a preacher with your own Learjet you’ve missed a whole lot of the point of what you’re allegedly preaching. Or was he one of the Prosperity heresy folks?

Willard Wigan

141 Decatur Deb  Nov 10, 2014 2:07:43pm

re: #131 Shiplord Kirel

Televangelist Myles Munroe, his wife, and seven others were killed yesterday when their Learjet collided with a shipping crane while attempting to land at Grand Bahama International Airport.

God was his copilot, but He punched out before impact.

142 Romantic Heretic  Nov 10, 2014 2:10:36pm

re: #79 Feline Fearless Leader

Ours is too loaded down with coconuts nuts.

FTFY.

143 bratwurst  Nov 10, 2014 2:11:00pm

I can’t wait to see how that great leader of men, Mitch McConnell, handles the dumbfuck caucus within his Senate majority. If Cruz’s bizarre point of view on this is any indication, there is not going to be any restraint in choice of battles where the teabaggers are concerned.

144 Justanotherhuman  Nov 10, 2014 2:12:36pm

Hip, hip—hooray!

Craig Spencer, the New York City doctor who became the 1st person in the city to test positive for Ebola, set to be released from hospital - @nytimes
read more on nytimes.com

Amazing what western medicine can do.

And to think Boko Haram killed 48 students because western “culture” was being taught.

Thugs, simply thugs, would do something like that.

145 Amory Blaine  Nov 10, 2014 2:14:35pm

re: #138 Charles Johnson

Back when men were men!!!!

146 bill d  Nov 10, 2014 2:16:03pm

re: #144 Justanotherhuman

Hip, hip—hooray!

Craig Spencer, the New York City doctor who became the 1st person in the city to test positive for Ebola, set to be released from hospital - @nytimes
read more on nytimes.com

Amazing what western medicine can do.

And to think Boko Haram killed 48 students because western “culture” was being taught.

Thugs, simply thugs, would do something like that.

THAT DOCTOR SHOULD GO INTO 21 DAY QUARANTINE SINCE HE WAS AROUND SOMEONE WHO HAD EBOLA!

147 Kragar  Nov 10, 2014 2:16:36pm

re: #145 Amory Blaine

Back when men were men!!!!

And sheep were scared!

148 Amory Blaine  Nov 10, 2014 2:16:40pm

re: #143 bratwurst

I think I would rather toil in the sugar caves of ant overlords.

149 The Mountain That Blogs  Nov 10, 2014 2:17:01pm

re: #144 Justanotherhuman

Which means there will very soon be no ebola cases in the US, and almost all of the ones that were here survived. Score one for modern medicine.

150 Kragar  Nov 10, 2014 2:17:27pm
151 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 2:18:41pm

re: #150 Kragar

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I’ll believe it when I see an air date.

152 Kragar  Nov 10, 2014 2:19:52pm

re: #151 Targetpractice

I’ll believe it when I see an air date.

TBD 2015

But its on Starz

153 Amory Blaine  Nov 10, 2014 2:20:36pm

Facts are facts. The new Senate majority leader punched Ebola in the face. Stupid libs.

154 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 2:21:27pm

re: #152 Kragar

TBD 2015

I’m not fallin’ for that. Last time something Sam Raimi was working on had a release date slapped on it before he’d even begun filming the first scene, it was Spider Man 4 and that crashed and burned.

155 BigPapa  Nov 10, 2014 2:24:57pm

‘The government will tax and regulate the internet to crap!’ says the Teabagger.

With not concept of monopoly, cronism, or elitism that will produce even less and cost even more. And that those with visions of that power fund the ‘free market think tanks’ casting further distrust on government.

Dupes.

156 Amory Blaine  Nov 10, 2014 2:26:00pm

Verizon responds to net neutrality

Verizon Statement on White House Title II Announcement

Verizon supports the open Internet

Bwaaahaahahahahaha!!!

157 Justanotherhuman  Nov 10, 2014 2:26:59pm

Holy shit. Talk about getting your racist hate on…

Murder Suspect Reportedly Killed A Black Man With His Truck, Told Police It Was Obama’s Fault

thinkprogress.org

158 goddamnedfrank  Nov 10, 2014 2:29:12pm

re: #137 William Barnett-Lewis

A Learjet. In the Bahamas. All I can say is it would seem to me that if you’re a preacher with your own Learjet you’ve missed a whole lot of the point of what you’re allegedly preaching. Or was he one of the Prosperity heresy folks?

Yep, another total scam artist.

The Key To Prosperity

A key is a device, usually metal, used to unlock a lock. It allows a person to gain passage to an otherwise prohibited area.

What is the key to prosperity? Like a master locksmith, Dr. Myles Monroe shows us the secret to unlocking true prosperity. You are just minutes away from finding your destiny and experiencing prosperity as God designed it!

…

For example, because of our purpose, my wife and I need a long dining room table that can seat a large number of people since we often have guests of the ministry to dinner. That’s part of our assignment. It might also be yours, depending on what you are called to do. However, perhaps you need a four-chair table rather than a twelve-chair table because you usually just have your family at dinner.

Give unto the Church, for God made you little people, with insignificant needs compared to the Good Reverend Doctor, who is doing the Lord’s work.

159 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 10, 2014 2:30:43pm

re: #158 goddamnedfrank

Yep, another total scam artist.

Give unto the Church, for God made you little people, with insignificant needs compared to the Good Reverend Doctor, who is doing the Lord’s work.

And you don’t have to wonder what the average income of their guests of the ministry were, do you. I doubt they were the poor or the needy.
// (spit)

160 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 2:31:27pm

re: #156 Amory Blaine

Verizon responds to net nutrality

Verizon Statement on White House Title II Announcement

Bwaaahaahahahahaha!!!

“We’re totally for an open internet…provided it goes through our networks and thus can be squeezed off or blocked as we see fit.”

161 goddamnedfrank  Nov 10, 2014 2:33:25pm

re: #158 goddamnedfrank

If you pursue the wrong assignment, you’re going to need things you can’t get, because the provision isn’t there unless the vision is yours. It’s someone else’s assignment, and he has his own warehouse.

Sometimes, people make demands on God that He can’t supply because He can’t give us what doesn’t belong to us.

Again, knowing God’s will for your life is the key to your prosperity.

Sniveling pleebs, accept your station in life! The Lord made you pathetic and small because the world needs ditch diggers too.

162 Kragar  Nov 10, 2014 2:33:50pm

re: #158 goddamnedfrank

I was in meditation and prayer last night.
I was awakened by a shining bright light!
Overhead a glorious spirit,
he gave me a message and you all need to hear it!
“Send me your money!”
That’s what he said

163 dog philosopher  Nov 10, 2014 2:34:16pm

re: #158 goddamnedfrank

because of our purpose

i tend to believe you lack the proper documentation regarding this particular

164 Mattand  Nov 10, 2014 2:34:34pm

re: #156 Amory Blaine

Verizon responds to net neutrality

Verizon Statement on White House Title II Announcement

Bwaaahaahahahahaha!!!

*sigh*

Why is it every company whose services actually work well for me, has to go out and prove what a bunch of assholes they really are?

165 Justanotherhuman  Nov 10, 2014 2:35:46pm

re: #158 goddamnedfrank

Oh, all that prosperity god-bothering is hugely profitable…

inplainsite.org

166 nines09  Nov 10, 2014 2:36:17pm

re: #162 Kragar

I was in meditation and prayer last night.
I was awakened by a shining bright light!
Overhead a glorious spirit,
he gave me a message and you all need to hear it!
“Send me your money!”
That’s what he said

You left your TV on again?

167 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 2:38:40pm

re: #164 Mattand

*sigh*

Why is it every company whose services actually work well for me, has to go out and prove what a bunch of assholes they really are?

I’ve considered talking with my folks about dropping the rest of our Verizon services once or twice. Came to mind around the time we decided to try to trade our 5 yr old cellphones in for smartphones and found out that we’d be paying out the ass for a family of four. Even if we just got two smartphones, it still was going to be at least double what we were already paying.

168 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 10, 2014 2:39:04pm

re: #156 Amory Blaine

I don’t think it means what Verizon thinks it means..

169 Kragar  Nov 10, 2014 2:39:50pm

re: #166 nines09

You left your TV on again?

Youtube Video

170 goddamnedfrank  Nov 10, 2014 2:40:01pm
Kingdom Commonwealth Economy

In this volume Dr. Munroe address the topics:

1.Understanding the concept of kingdom commonwealth

2. The principle of kingdom commonwealth Pt.1

3.The principle of kingdom commonwealth Pt.2

4. Understanding the key to kingdom prosperity

Price:$30.00

And:

In this four CD series Dr Myles Munroe speaks on the topics of:

1.Giving and Receiving

2.Tithing Pt.1

3. Tithing pt.2

4.Tithing God’s way

Price:$30.00

171 nines09  Nov 10, 2014 2:40:10pm

“God needs money. Yes. But it has to go through me. You see, I’m special. I talk to God. I know how to get it to him. And he told me he’s a bit short. So he asked me if I would use my TV show to help him out. You don’t want to piss God off do you? Would he turn you away in time of need? Send your prayers in the form of 20 dollar bills or checks to….”

172 Dr Lizardo  Nov 10, 2014 2:41:13pm

re: #162 Kragar

I was in meditation and prayer last night.
I was awakened by a shining bright light!
Overhead a glorious spirit,
he gave me a message and you all need to hear it!
“Send me your money!”
That’s what he said

Anthrax said it quite well:

God says have a T.V. show
God says baby do some blow
God says taxes are a sin
God says pour the money in
Rape the poor, faith no more
Faith for cash, make me laugh
Faith no more, face the whore
Rape your past, make me laugh

God says have a swimming pool
God say keep the doghouse cool
God says planes and boats and cars
God says have an amusement park
God says go and masturbate
God says file taxes late
God says paint your face all sick
God says be a real prick
God says have a T.V. show
God says baby do some blow
God says taxes are a sin
God says pour the money in

- Make Me Laugh

Youtube Video

173 klystron  Nov 10, 2014 2:42:55pm

re: #167 Targetpractice

I’ve considered talking with my folks about dropping the rest of our Verizon services once or twice. Came to mind around the time we decided to try to trade our 5 yr old cellphones in for smartphones and found out that we’d be paying out the ass for a family of four. Even if we just got two smartphones, it still was going to be at least double what we were already paying.

Their family data share stuff is incredibly stupid and far too expensive and one of the reasons they can have my unlimited contract out of my cold, dead hands.

174 Shiplord Kirel  Nov 10, 2014 2:44:20pm

ADM Global Security Intelligence Report: Ferguson Decision Due on November 10, 2014 at 2:00 PM

Apparently not, but that does not keep the freepers from getting their hate on:

People should be buying fire extinguishers along with their guns.

Some seriously venomous sarcasm:

I think this would be a wonderful opportunity to pause for a moment and give thanks for the many great contributions of the Black community and their culture to our society. Their peaceful and generous nature makes them ideal neighbors, lending testimony to their exceptional family values and parenting skills unrivaled by any other culture.Their commitment to academic excellence enriches our schools and serves as an example to all who hope to achieve prominence as a people. Real Estate values are fueled by the influx of African Americans into an area due to their caring and respectful nurturing of these communities, an example of all they have achieved by their enthusiasm for self-improvement through hard work and a self-reliant can-do nature. Without their industrious and creative drive, we would be poorer as a nation.

A dissenting response to the above:

Cutsie hatred.

Just what we want FR to be known for, right?

Back to business as usual, in very plain language

My old friend used to pose this question:

Would the country be any worse off if 95% of them were to ‘vanish’ overnight?

I used to to strenuously argue against his proposition.

No longer.

The language becomes even more direct:

If you use your gun right you won’t need the fire extinguisher…………

175 goddamnedfrank  Nov 10, 2014 2:46:43pm

A Grab from the Bahamas Faith Ministries Book of the Month promotional video:

Do you have differcult questions?

176 Kragar  Nov 10, 2014 2:48:30pm

re: #175 goddamnedfrank

A Grab from the Bahamas Faith Ministries Book of the Month promotional video:

Do you have differcult questions?

Apparently the only way to ensure communication with an omni-present, omnipotent Supreme being is to pay trained professionals.

177 Shiplord Kirel  Nov 10, 2014 2:48:35pm

re: #175 goddamnedfrank

A Grab from the Bahamas Faith Ministries Book of the Month promotional video:

Do you have differcult questions?

Differculty with spelling……

178 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 2:48:52pm

re: #174 Shiplord Kirel

ADM Global Security Intelligence Report: Ferguson Decision Due on November 10, 2014 at 2:00 PM

Apparently not, but that does not keep the freepers from getting their hate on:

Some seriously venomous sarcasm:

A dissenting response to the above:

Back to business as usual, in very plain language

The language becomes even more direct:

Something tells me they’re hoping for a repeat of the Rodney King Riots, if only to have something else to blame on the President.

179 Dr Lizardo  Nov 10, 2014 2:50:18pm

Well, goodnight, Lizards.

180 Justanotherhuman  Nov 10, 2014 2:53:01pm

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor halts same-sex marriages in Kansas until further order from her or Supreme Court - @chrisgeidner
end of alert

181 Dr. Matt  Nov 10, 2014 2:54:00pm

Good lawd, my twitter feed has been blowing up for the last 3 hours with a Creationist vs. Evolutionist battle.

Note to self: Don’t tweet to former NFLers/science deniers.

182 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 2:54:08pm

re: #180 Justanotherhuman

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor halts same-sex marriages in Kansas until further order from her or Supreme Court - @chrisgeidner
end of alert

Huh? Why would she do that unless SCOTUS was seriously considering on ruling on this matter in the near future?

183 ipsos  Nov 10, 2014 2:58:28pm

Very possibly the best thing the Oatmeal has ever done, which is saying something.

theoatmeal.com

184 Justanotherhuman  Nov 10, 2014 2:59:26pm

re: #182 Targetpractice

Huh? Why would she do that unless SCOTUS was seriously considering on ruling on this matter in the near future?

UPDATED 5:58 p.m. Justice Sonia Sotomayor has blocked the federal judge’s order, calling for a response by the same-sex couples to be filed by 5 p.m. (Eastern time) on Tuesday. The delay, temporarily preventing issuance of licenses to gay and lesbian couples in Kansas, will remain in effect until there is a further order either by Justice Sotomayor or by the full Court. The Sotomayor order is here.

————-

The state of Kansas, making a strong states’ rights claim, asked the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon to order a delay in same-sex marriages that could occur as early as tomorrow evening, if there is no postponement. The application (14A503) was filed with Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who handles emergency legal matters from the Tenth Circuit’s region, which includes Kansas. She can decide it on her own, or share it with her colleagues.

This marked the first time that the same-sex marriage issue has returned to the Court since a split developed in the federal appeals courts on the power of states to ban such unions. The Kansas application made heavy use of the decision last Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, upholding bans in four states in that circuit. The text of the Sixth Circuit decision was filed along with the application; that will put it before the Justices for the first time, but it is not directly under review at this point; appeals from it are likely to be filed later this week..

Continue reading »

scotusblog.com

185 Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 10, 2014 3:00:41pm

re: #178 Targetpractice

Something tells me they’re hoping for a repeat of the Rodney King Riots, if only to have something else to blame on the President.

I’m about sick of that shit.

“Obama didn’t fix race relations!” Of course not, because his election brought out the submerged hatred in many, many white people.

“Obama didn’t change the tone in Washington!” Of course not, because many of the people responsible for that tone made it a priority for him to fail to change that tone. Why? See above.

186 Justanotherhuman  Nov 10, 2014 3:01:28pm

re: #183 ipsos

Very possibly the best thing the Oatmeal has ever done, which is saying something.

theoatmeal.com

Excellent!

187 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 3:03:29pm

re: #184 Justanotherhuman

UPDATED 5:58 p.m. Justice Sonia Sotomayor has blocked the federal judge’s order, calling for a response by the same-sex couples to be filed by 5 p.m. (Eastern time) on Tuesday. The delay, temporarily preventing issuance of licenses to gay and lesbian couples in Kansas, will remain in effect until there is a further order either by Justice Sotomayor or by the full Court. The Sotomayor order is here.

————-

The state of Kansas, making a strong states’ rights claim, asked the Supreme Court on Monday afternoon to order a delay in same-sex marriages that could occur as early as tomorrow evening, if there is no postponement. The application (14A503) was filed with Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who handles emergency legal matters from the Tenth Circuit’s region, which includes Kansas. She can decide it on her own, or share it with her colleagues.

This marked the first time that the same-sex marriage issue has returned to the Court since a split developed in the federal appeals courts on the power of states to ban such unions. The Kansas application made heavy use of the decision last Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, upholding bans in four states in that circuit. The text of the Sixth Circuit decision was filed along with the application; that will put it before the Justices for the first time, but it is not directly under review at this point; appeals from it are likely to be filed later this week..

Continue reading »

scotusblog.com

Trying to make sense of it, Kansas is basically saying that because the Sixth Circuit ruled in favor of the bans in the states it’s responsible for, the state of Kansas has legal grounds to assert that their own overturned ban is constitutional and is demanding SCOTUS put a hold on marriages until the matter is settled. That sound about right?

188 Justanotherhuman  Nov 10, 2014 3:04:59pm

Tom Brokaw, Meryl Streep, Stephen Sondheim, Stevie Wonder and Isabelle Allende among those to receive Medal of Freedom from President Obama - @peterbakernyt
end of alert

189 TedStriker  Nov 10, 2014 3:05:02pm

re: #161 goddamnedfrank

Sniveling pleebs, accept your station in life! The Lord made you pathetic and small because the world needs ditch diggers too.

190 Charles Johnson  Nov 10, 2014 3:08:13pm
192 Justanotherhuman  Nov 10, 2014 3:11:51pm

re: #190 Charles Johnson

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I want some of what he was smoking…

193 SteveMcGazi  Nov 10, 2014 3:12:13pm

re: #189 TedStriker

Actually Ty says that

194 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 3:14:13pm

re: #191 Varek Raith

New York doctor now Ebola free, will be released from hospital

And the media responds with a resounding “Who gives a fuck?”

195 lawhawk  Nov 10, 2014 3:15:10pm

re: #187 Targetpractice

Yup. They’re hoping for a split of authority to force the issue to the Supreme Court. It’s the last refuge of the SSM opponents. They want the Supreme Court to rule, and hope that they’d overturn the lower courts that have ruled it unconstitutional thus far.

196 bratwurst  Nov 10, 2014 3:15:12pm
197 TedStriker  Nov 10, 2014 3:16:22pm

re: #193 SteveMcGazi

Actually Ty says that

Youtube Video

Ty and Danny talked about lumberyards, not ditch digging.

198 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 3:22:28pm

re: #195 lawhawk

Yup. They’re hoping for a split of authority to force the issue to the Supreme Court. It’s the last refuge of the SSM opponents. They want the Supreme Court to rule, and hope that they’d overturn the lower courts that have ruled it unconstitutional thus far.

I imagine they’re hoping they can talk Kennedy into agreeing that this is yet another “states rights” issue or some such BS and thus allowing them to keep the bans in contradiction of the 14th amendment and Windsor.

199 Justanotherhuman  Nov 10, 2014 3:24:12pm

Doesn’t look good for CA—2014 is shaping up to be the warmest and possibly driest year ever recorded.

200 BeachDem  Nov 10, 2014 3:24:21pm

re: #184 Justanotherhuman

The Kansas application made heavy use of the decision last Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, upholding bans in four states in that circuit. The text of the Sixth Circuit decision was filed along with the application; that will put it before the Justices for the first time, but it is not directly under review at this point; appeals from it are likely to be filed later this week..

scotusblog.com

That 6th Circuit decision was such a joke, I can’t believe anyone relied on it for anything other than to point and laugh, as the dissenting judge in that case did repeatedly in her brilliant dissent.

Curiouser and curiouser…

201 Justanotherhuman  Nov 10, 2014 3:26:50pm

re: #200 BeachDem

That 6th Circuit decision was such a joke, I can’t believe anyone relied on it for anything other than to point and laugh, as the dissenting judge in that case did repeatedly in her brilliant dissent.

Curiouser and curiouser…

Well, the ACLU and other human rights and LGBT groups are planning to file (ed: against it), so I imagine this is going to be decided by the full court at some point.

202 Justanotherhuman  Nov 10, 2014 3:29:11pm

A fine might be imposed, though…

New York Police Department to stop arresting people for minor marijuana offenses, police commissioner says - @nbcnewyork
read more on nbcnewyork.com

203 BeachDem  Nov 10, 2014 3:30:17pm

re: #190 Charles Johnson

I sat in the same row as Dali at a Segovia concert in 1967 or thereabouts. Dali wore a red-lined black cape, and when Segovia acknowledged him in the audience, he made a huge sweeping bow. I’ll never forget that.

204 makeitstop  Nov 10, 2014 3:32:21pm

re: #190 Charles Johnson

alvador Dali taking his anteater for a walk in Paris, 1969

I know it’s weird, but I’m wondering if that stream of liquid is anteater pee.

205 RealityBasedEbola  Nov 10, 2014 3:34:07pm

re: #204 makeitstop

I know it’s weird, but I’m wondering if that stream of liquid is anteater pee.

It may be weird, but that was the first thing I thought too.

RBS

206 Targetpractice  Nov 10, 2014 3:35:58pm

re: #202 Justanotherhuman

A fine might be imposed, though…

New York Police Department to stop arresting people for minor marijuana offenses, police commissioner says - @nbcnewyork
read more on nbcnewyork.com

Step in the right direction. Money and time wasted on dragging people in for a baggie of pot could instead be stopping serious crimes.

207 Justanotherhuman  Nov 10, 2014 3:37:26pm

Poor people have money to spend on drugs? Since when? I expect there is some selling of SNAP benefits somewhere, but if some are committing criminal offenses, charge them. Otherwise, why should ever single person have to undergo something like drug testing?

How Scott Walker’s Plan To Drug Test Wisconsin Welfare Recipients Will Stigmatize Poor People

thinkprogress.org

And why does the rightwing hate people who receive assistance so much?

208 Skip Intro  Nov 10, 2014 3:38:20pm

Before this thread dies, one more shot at the A is the B of C of Ted Cruz.

Fostering net neutrality is the Ebola of government corruption.

I really don’t know why he didn’t work Ebola into his original tweet. Did he run out of characters?

209 Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 10, 2014 3:44:00pm

re: #207 Justanotherhuman

Poor people have money to spend on drugs? Since when? I expect there is some selling of SNAP benefits somewhere, but if some are committing criminal offenses, charge them. Otherwise, why should ever single person have to undergo something like drug testing?

How Scott Walker’s Plan To Drug Test Wisconsin Welfare Recipients Will Stigmatize Poor People

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And why does the rightwing hate people who receive assistance so much?

Probably a sweetheart deal for whoever gets paid for doing all the testing. Win-win.
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210 TedStriker  Nov 10, 2014 3:47:15pm

re: #201 Justanotherhuman

Well, the ACLU and other human rights and LGBT groups are planning to file (ed: against it), so I imagine this is going to be decided by the full court at some point.

It was assured of going to the SCOTUS as soon as there was a circuit split, courtesy of the circuit court that covers my state (TN) last week.

211 Weet  Nov 10, 2014 3:49:01pm
212 Vicious Piebola  Nov 10, 2014 3:51:06pm

re: #207 Justanotherhuman

Poor people have money to spend on drugs? Since when? I expect there is some selling of SNAP benefits somewhere, but if some are committing criminal offenses, charge them. Otherwise, why should ever single person have to undergo something like drug testing?

How Scott Walker’s Plan To Drug Test Wisconsin Welfare Recipients Will Stigmatize Poor People

thinkprogress.org

And why does the rightwing hate people who receive assistance so much?

213 Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 10, 2014 4:09:23pm

re: #182 Targetpractice

Huh? Why would she do that unless SCOTUS was seriously considering on ruling on this matter in the near future?

It’s fallout from earlier last week. Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee are Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Kansas is Tenth Circuit and just trying to make shit up because Tenth Circuit refused a Kansas’ request to delay.

214 krypto  Nov 10, 2014 4:28:24pm

All of which proves again that if Obama is for it, the rightwing will be against it.

215 sauceruney  Nov 10, 2014 6:32:54pm

Found this more nuanced and accurate comparison to the ACA on Jason Kottke’s site. Leaving it for reference.

216 Areopagitica  Nov 10, 2014 10:17:18pm

Jumpin yellow rattlesnake flags Ted Cruz, net neutrality would help ensure that the internet doesn’t run as fast as the government because your campaign donors wouldn’t be able to slow down your download speed that you probably use to get the latest conspiracy theories from what ever wackadoo website you frequent.

Ted in the a.m.: Why won’t my obamamarxism conspiracy page load faster? What does this mean that I have to pay a fee to comcast to access this picture of Obama purchasing an autographed copy of Fidel Castro’s cigar guide once owned by Nikita khrushchev?

How the hell is this nitwit a senator?


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