In fact, I fear I am a jack-of-all-trades. (Posts tagged politics)

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
stfuconservatives
downlo

In which Representative Ed Markey (D-MA) is fucking awesome (via):

Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to a bill that overturns the scientific finding that pollution is harming our people and our planet.

However, I won’t physically rise, because I’m worried that Republicans will overturn the law of gravity, sending us floating about the room.

I won’t call for the sunlight of additional hearings, for fear that Republicans might excommunicate the finding that the Earth revolves around the sun.

Instead, I’ll embody Newton’s third law of motion and be an equal and opposing force against this attack on science and on laws that will reduce America’s importation of foreign oil.

This bill will live in the House while simultaneously being dead in the Senate. It will be a legislative Schrodinger’s cat killed by the quantum mechanics of the legislative process!

Arbitrary rejection of scientific fact will not cause us to rise from our seats today. But with this bill, pollution levels will rise. Oil imports will rise. Temperatures will rise.

And with that, I yield back the balance of my time. That is, unless a rejection of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity is somewhere in the chair’s amendment pile.

nefariousnewt

BRAVO!!!!!!!! *clapping*

stfuconservatives

“The bill will be a legislative Schrodinger’s cat, killed by the quantum mechanics of the legislative process.”

That’s the kind of bad-ass speech I plan to give after I’m elected to Congress. Me and this guy are going to start the House Committee on Legitimizing Actual Science and Facts.

nonnegative

This bill will live in the House while simultaneously being dead in the Senate. It will be a legislative Schrodinger’s cat killed by the quantum mechanics of the legislative process!

I’ve seen this quoted all day and it’s not getting any less awesome the more I read it.

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In case you want to read a whole article about people being wrong here it is:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/21/white.persecution/index.html?hpt=C1

We’ll be going over it more in-depth in the future but I had to get the obvious answer of the way.

-Joe

Eh, I wouldn’t say no. I’ve seen companies hire blacks over whites simply because they were black.

THAT IS NOT OPPRESSION! Even if these “companies you’ve seen” existed they would be outliers. 

Studies have shown over and over again that White Males are more likely to hired, less likely to be unemployed, more likely to go to college, less likely to be imprisoned for identical crimes, extremely less likely to get the death penalty. 

Whites more likely to get a job over minorities

http://www.princeton.edu/~pager/race_at_work.pdf

Death Penalty more likely for minorities

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/death-penalty-black-and-white-who-lives-who-dies-who-decides#Study 1

Death Penalty more likely if victim is white 

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E5DC133EF93BA35752C0A9659C8B63

Black Unemployment to hit 25 year high

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011404085.html 

That time or even times you saw a Black person treated preferentially neither erases their oppression nor makes whites oppressed. I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again, society is bigger than you and I.

-Joe

If you know anything about me, you’ll know I’m not the least bit racist. But, has anyone stopped to think that the “Black” unemployment has absolutely nothing to with racial preference of employers and more to do with the fact that maybe a decent amount of “Blacks” are lazy? Not every statistic has to be based on race. Some people are lazy, some people are fuck-ups, some people can’t keep a job because of their personality. I don’t think any of these reasons have anything to with race; black, white, Asian, Pacific Islander, Russian, German, etc.

This is perhaps the most racist thing I have ever read…

-Joe

OH NO HE DIDN’T. Wow. Way to sound straight out of every 1950s race debate ever.”I’m not racist but my statement bears an uncanny resemblance to those said by racists, in fact, to one of the most common ones. That makes me…what?”

Side note: this is why people who complain about quotas or “preferential treatment” (that was my ethics textbook, oh the rage I felt) are morons: the reason a lot of white dudes are hired all the time isn’t because they’re always the most competent in every case. It’s because people hire white dudes BECAUSE they are white and male. Okay? Okay. So for people to say “oh, but you wouldn’t want to be hired because of a race-based/gender-based quota as opposed to your qualifications”, goddammit, there IS one in place already.

THIS. ilusfm.

“I’m not racist, but…” is a dead give away that a racist statement is about to follow.

“I’m not racist, but I TOTALLY AM AND LET ME PROVE IT BY SOUNDING LIKE A CARICATURE OF A RACIST PERSON!” Hilarious in the ‘haha wow I can’t believe people like this still exist’ way that’s not actually hilarious at all. Self-reflection is HARD, you guys.

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queerbucky
flyicarus

And if you’re on the side of government, say, I think government should have a limit, there is limit beyond which they cannot pass, then you do not support this bill…

Let doctors and patients make this decision, not government.

Anthony Weiner is heavensent by his constituency.

nonnegative

I love his comment at the end of this. “Can I finish my answer?” “It doesn’t sound terribly enticing, no.”

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