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Journal: Why are these not all banned, then? 1

Journal by damn_registrars
Someone recently tried to make a point by stating

You cannot make a child through sodomy

Which appears to be yet another flimsy excuse for supporting homophobia. But if we really want to run with that flimsy statement, then we should realize that if that is really the only concern then there are many other sexual acts that have the same outcome:

  • Sex with a post-menopausal woman
  • Sex with a man who has had a vasectomy
  • Sex with a woman who has had her tubes tied or a hysterectomy
  • Sex with anyone who has had gender reassignment surgery

Furthermore, sex with a pregnant woman cannot produce another baby beyond the one already in the womb.

So why are all of those acts not banned as well? Why don't we support hatred against people who participate in them>

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Journal: Epic Reading Fail (health insurance bailout) 6

Journal by damn_registrars
There are creative cases of conservatives attempting to cover up their motivations of politics above all else, and then there are epic reading failures as a result. In particular I bring to attention smitty's amazing inability to read his own source:

Yeah, that's been debunked: http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/06/dont-blame-heritage-for-obamacare-mandate/ [heritage.org] But you keep playing that card as you whistle past the graveyard, girl. Obama's perfidy is too publicly on display. The Democrats own it.

This was in response to my reminding him that the Health Insurance Industry Bailout Act of 2010 (aka the Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare") was indeed driven primarily by goals of the Heritage Foundation in an attempt to bring over conservative votes. We all know of course that it resembles "RomneyCare" from Massachusetts more than it does anything that Obama or any liberal championed while running for office, but what Smitty shared here in an attempt to distance conservatives from the 2010 bill only cements their legacy within it:


Sound familiar? Anyone who paid attention to the SCOTUS ruling on the act knows that the supreme court ruled the mandate constitutional because it is ... wait for it ... a tax. In other words, it was exactly what the Heritage Foundation wanted.

Naturally it was - after all, they wrote the damned bill.

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Journal: words 8

Journal by Bill Dog

I used "social engineering" in a sentence a few minutes ago and wanted to look up some kind of official definition. Dang it is getting hard to find the definition that's not just the technical, hacking one.

On a second page of hits I found that Webster's still retains its historical definition:

Management of human beings in accordance with their place and function in society.

(Hey, what could be more moral than that, right?)

I say historical because it no longer describes an alternate state, rather now being concomitant with existence. I.e. it's no longer an "ism", it's an "is". So therefore it's not really notable as its own word anymore.

In general I lament when words, that already have a distinct meaning, get hijacked by the ignorant, and it catches on. Because then we lose the original meaning/no longer have a word to describe the first thing. (Which, of course if you're on the Left, don't mind at all if the politically manipulative meaning of that word pair gets obscured by the technology meaning one.)

"Hacking" is another one. As someone who went through a Computer Science program at a university in the late 80's/early 90's, its original meaning in computers meant to skip desiging and thinking about a program and just diving in to coding it. But I figure some journalist heard the term and grokked that it related to computers somehow but didn't know how, and made the incorrect assumption that it related to breaking in to computers, wrote an article, and the rest is histoire.

And for the latest example, Pest Buy is now running commercials that you should come in and buy Windows tablets there because they've handed some out to their employees first and they've taken them home to learn it, presumably to be better able to tell you how to use Windows 8. But they're referring to this process as "beta testing". Gah!

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Journal: Jonah Goldberg QOTD 30

Journal by smitty_one_each

Consider the fact that Obamacare is now simply untethered from law or policy. This week the administration announced that you can get a hardship waiver from Obamacare if your hardship is . . .wait for it . . . Obamacare. This is like getting out of doing push-ups during basic training if you can prove that doing push-ups would be difficult for you, defeating the point of doing push-ups in the first place. The White House is quite simply making it all up as they go along. You can't really point to a thing that is Obamacare because doing so would be like pointing at the blob in a lava lamp and saying "that looks like Michael Caine eating a badger." Maybe it looks like that right now. Give it a second. When you criticize Obamacare the response from its defenders gets meta really quickly.

I'm sure that damn_registrars understands all of this substitution of mood for law is a necessary step so that one day soon BHO can call a press conference and announce: "I have a Single Prayer dream" in his best MLK voice.
We'll get there, d_r. Let us know if you need a diaper re-supply.

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Journal: Underscoring fustakrakich's point

Journal by smitty_one_each
So the Tea Partiers are sold out. This will be a hard lesson. Welcome to the natural political cycle. My real point is not that there is anybody virtuous enough to hold office (there is not) but that we need to liquidate incumbents as often as possible, and then cram a term limit amendment up their backsides.
Hell is stocked with professional politicians.
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Journal: State-managed racism encounters tough sledding with unfavored minorities 9

Journal by smitty_one_each


CA is just gonna have to go with damn_registrars and bring in MOAR REGULATION.
Remember kids: regulation is the new sex.

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Journal: Just let it go 10

Journal by smitty_one_each

On another occasion I asked your deputy why you didnâ(TM)t conduct an evaluation by the Op-Divs of the immediate office administrative services to try to improve them. She responded that that had been tried a few years ago and the results were so negative that no further evaluations have been conducted.

Q: What is the difference between a zombie, a garden gnome, and a specimen of homo bureaucratus?
A: The gnome makes the best travel commercials, and the other two are fungible.

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Journal: Bank of England to Parliament: "We Shredded All the Records"

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius



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Journal: Silliness: Friday Pi Day 2

Journal by Chacham

Well, it's Friday, Pi day, as i'm sure you know.
But next year will be even so much more so
And a year after that, you can feel rounded
Anyone else wish to hear this expounded?

The Matrix

Journal: Missing Maylasian Jumbo - Freescale Conspiracy - Rothschild 6

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius



Patent is divided up on 20% increments to 5 holders.

  5. Freescale Semiconductor (20%)



That remaining live Patent holder is Freescale Semiconductor.

Who owns Freescale Semiconductor?

Jacob Rothschild through Blackstone who owns Freescale.


Thus, Rothschild controlled interest gets 100% of Patent once Patent holders declared deceased.

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Journal: Big setback for the "nothing to see here, move along" community 8

Journal by smitty_one_each



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Journal: Verbiage: Beta and Mod points 6

Journal by Chacham

I was sneaking around slashdot before, and now the front-page and journals all sow up in the beta. Removing "beta." from the URL is of no help. It reminds me of Windows 8, which made me switch away from Windows and to the Mac. Perhaps, we are now entering the Third Age of slashdot.

I have 5 moderator points, and prefer to spend them in JEs. But, i can't seem to find the moderate button in the old interface. Wondering if it was the date of the JE, i started listing JEs, but most seem like advertisements and there do not seem to be too many with comments.

The more i use Slashdot, the more i dislike it.
