Politics: A new beginning

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
You initially suggested that the 14th Amendment does not empower Congress to pass civil rights laws, and I am telling you that not only is that wrong, the legislative power provided in Section 5 is in significant respects more robust than Congress's other powers.

No, I didn't. I said the interstate commerce clause had been used to uphold civil rights laws and that the 14th amendment was used in the badge of slavery cases. However, as you correctly pointed out to me, I was thinking of the 13th amendment, which I was. And as I told you, my bad, I will try to do better in the future. I wasn't talking about equal protection and I do recognize that equal protection is used in race cases. It is just that I got the number 13 confused with the number 14.

I thought you were talking about a different amendment (13th), but as I have now stated several times, it is because I confused the numbering of the amendments.

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
but I also don't know why it would matter.

It doesn't matter now that you have pointed out to me that I was thinking of the 13th amendment when I responded.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
intellectual conservatives, by which I mean the ones who don't give a shit about religious objections to abortion but who believe in limited federal power.

I think those are more properly called the libertarian wing of the Repubs.

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch I'm sure Slave will tell us what life as the Most Conservative Person in Toronto is like.

WHAT?!?!? Slave's CANADIAN?!?!?!?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Please review sections 1 and 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment, and get back to me.* Or read Katzenbach v. Morgan, 384 U.S. 641 (1966). You may be thinking of sections 1 and 2 of the Thirteenth Amendment.

* You don't really have to get back to me. This was a figure of speech.

Ummm, no. bush threw out the bill rights and them other amendments, executive order and all. BTFP

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
It's all fun and games until they ban porn. I'm sure Slave will tell us what life as the Most Conservative Person in Toronto is like.

does New Zealand have patent litigation?

[Hank Chinaski]

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
intellectual conservatives, by which I mean the ones who don't give a shit about religious objections to abortion but who believe in limited federal power.
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Originally posted by Not Me
I think those are more properly called the libertarian wing of the Repubs.

Atticus is a pimp. He could never have out fought Club. But, it wasn't until this day that I knew it was Tyrone all along.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Atticus is a pimp. He could never have out fought Club. But, it wasn't until this day that I knew it was Tyrone all along.

You've lost me. However, will you tell me where club went? He was here last time I was here so you can't blame him leaving on me. I may have single handedly been able to destroy the FB, but you all are made of hardier stock than the pansies on the FB.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Not Me
You've lost me. However, will you tell me where club went? He was here last time I was here so you can't blame him leaving on me. I may have single handedly been able to destroy the FB, but you all are made of hardier stock than the pansies on the FB.

don't want to charecterize, but essentially a spat over a post. search "petty crime" and read forward.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Not Me
WHAT?!?!? Slave's CANADIAN?!?!?!?

no, but if "Nostradamous" Grinch is correct, slave's kids'll be.
Atticus' first prediction is the world will boycott the '04 Olympics, so we'll have some feedback soon enough.

[SlaveNoMore]

Atticus Grinch
In other words, this is the real core GOP voter biting the intellectual GOP members in their collective ass. Mess with the bull, get the horns. It's all fun and games until they ban porn. I'm sure Slave will tell us what life as the Most Conservative Person in Toronto is like.

Hey, Alec threatens to move to Europe all the time. Last I checked, Massapequa still ain't next to Versailles (even if its most famous inhabitant is pro-Vichy)

[SlaveNoMore]

Hank Chinaski
does New Zealand have patent litigation?

Is "patent" a kind of sheep? If so, yes.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Two words: Unborn Victims of Violence Act.

Anyone care to (continue to) defend the proposition that overturning RvW will mean the abortion issue devolves to the states? Did Bush not get the memo about remaining morally pure on RvW as an impingement on states' rights that must be eradicated?

They want to punish me harder if I beat her and kill or injure her unborn child. You want to punish me harder if I beat her while thinking, to myself, "I HATE these fucking Swedes!"

I just feel trapped amongst all of you irrational idiots. Go into your own fucking corners and think dark thoughts and burn, and stop with the high and mighty constitutional shit until you can stop picking and choosing.

[Dave]

Originally posted by bilmore

[Photo of Al and Tipper getting it ON!]

He invented kissing.

I thought Gore just invented tounge.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Is "patent" a kind of sheep? If so, yes.

so you're saying Porn isn't threatened in New Zealand, but you don't really need it. that is f'ing heavy!

[Not Me]

Originally posted by bilmore
I just feel trapped amongst all of you irrational idiots. Go into your own fucking corners and think dark thoughts and burn, and stop with the high and mighty constitutional shit until you can stop picking and choosing.

Someone needs a drinky. Or perhaps, someone has had too many drinkies. NTTAWWT.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
don't want to charecterize, but essentially a spat over a post. search "petty crime" and read forward.

Ok, well, I went back and read through part of it, and all I have to say to everyone involved is lighten up, Francis. And by Francis, I mean AG.

Part of the beauty of this board and others like it on the internet is that you get to say to others those thoughts in your head that you would never get the chance to say to others in real life because we are fucking silenced by political correctness. If I have to be as polite and PC on this board as I am expected to be IRL, what's the point of being here?

Attendance here is not mandatory.

Jesus Fucking Christ/Muhummad/Allah/Yaweh/Joseph Smith/cow.