Politics As Usual

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Not Me
I don't have a heart of gold. My hubby is extremely intelligent, makes me laugh and has a hot body. And he pays for me. What's not to love about a guy like that?

$2000 a/k/a 1/1000 of the fund. Final offer.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Either read the article, read the posts about the article,

This is a joke, right?

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
or just shut up and show us your fake tits.

Why would I ever do that? What is in it for me?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Not Me
I don't have a heart of gold. My hubby is extremely intelligent, makes me laugh and has a hot body. And he pays for me. What's not to love about a guy like that?

His taste in women.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Not Me
I think he understands that part about "state action." The first amendment doesn't allow you to stay in a private event if the owenr's of the building or those who are renting the building ask you to leave. If I wear a t-shirt to the mall and the mall owners don't like what my t-shirt says and they ask me to leave and I don't, the first amendment doesn't protect me. Get it now?

Burger was smart enough to go back to read the stuff I linked, which makes clear that this was a public event, paid for with government dollars. You, on the other hand, are not.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Not Me
I hit the nail on the head and you know it.

Sorry hun but you can't afford me. You can't even afford to eat out. Anyhow, I am taken. BTW - the fact that I expect my husband to pay for everything doesn't mean I don't love him. It is just one of the reasons I do love him.

So much for all that feminist chatter . . .

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
$2000 a/k/a 1/1000 of the fund. Final offer.

Don't insult me.

[confidential to Coltrane]I think if you get her drunk, Fringey will do it for free. Perhaps even in the ass. She has to be at least as attractive as the trailer park inhabitants that you pick up in bars.[/confidential to Coltrane]

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Busted.

Time-place-manner restrictions. Why is it unreasonable to assume that persons who are wearing such t-shirts are a) likely to be protesters and b) likely to disrupt the event particularly in light of their refusal to leave when asked by authorities to do so? Should they have first been asked to remove their t-shirts?

Do you like to joke about bombs in the xray line at the airport?

It was content-based, and nothing to do with time, place or manner. Your test bootstraps the former. And it's pretty silly to say that anyone who refuses to change their clothes upon law enforcement demand can thereby be deemed likely to violate the law.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Not Me
Don't insult me.

[confidential to Coltrane]I think if you get her drunk, Fringey will do it for free. Perhaps even in the ass. She has to be at least as attractive as the trailer park inhabitants that you pick up in bars.[/confidential to Coltrane]

Colty doesn't have to get me drunk. He just needs to bring a nubile young Amish boy for us to share.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
* The Armpit Of The Nation

Hey, screw you, pal.

No, wait. [consider possible venues]

Yeah, yeah. Screw you, pal!

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Busted.

Time-place-manner restrictions. Why is it unreasonable to assume that persons who are wearing such t-shirts are a) likely to be protesters and b) likely to disrupt the event particularly in light of their refusal to leave when asked by authorities to do so? Should they have first been asked to remove their t-shirts?

Do you like to joke about bombs in the xray line at the airport?

Yeesh. There's a good reason the right never got a reputation as guardians of non-economic civil liberties. All minority-view speech has the potential to incite disorder. That's why the Supreme Court has effectively neutered most anti-incitement laws, because they repeatedly got used to suppress legitimate dissent by focusing on the likely response from the mob.

Your 1st Amendment arguments remind me of the KKK guy on "Reno 911." "That's not a cross. That's a 'T' for 'tolerance.'"

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Your 1st Amendment arguments remind me of the KKK guy on "Reno 911." "That's not a cross. That's a 'T' for 'tolerance.'"

Finally, a reference from Atticus that is within my cultural grasp. Fuckin' A.

[SlaveNoMore]

Not Me
Why would I ever do that? What is in it for me?

You might actually get some of the people on this Board to think you're a chick.

Or not.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Yeesh. There's a good reason the right never got a reputation as guardians of non-economic civil liberties.

Burger's not on the right. He's just having fun trying the argument on for size.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
$2000 a/k/a 1/1000 of the fund. Final offer.

You have a $2 million trust fund?

You got anyone you need sued?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It was content-based, and nothing to do with time, place or manner. Your test bootstraps the former. And it's pretty silly to say that anyone who refuses to change their clothes upon law enforcement demand can thereby be deemed likely to violate the law.

You're assuming it's a public forum. The fact that it was ticketed suggested that it was not entirely public.

But I think the disconnect here is because of something different. Although nominally not a "campaign" event, presumably that's essentially what it was. WTF would Bush be at a podunk building to mingle with the public otherwise? And is it feasible to separate the two activities (campaigning vs. being president) in a coherent manner?

Anyway, when you become President, and eat dinner in the White House, I'll send Rush over to visit then.

In the meantime, send a letter to Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV), Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-WV), or Gov. Bob Wise (D), all of whom presumably have a little more control over the W.V. Capitol Police, who were the ones who asked the putative protestors to move or leave.