Extremely Lame

Yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld part of a child pornography law that required five year mandatory sentences for leading people to believe you owned child pornography regardless of whether you actually had any or not. I’d provide quotes, but since it’s an AP article, they’d want $17 for me to do so.

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Oh great, what has Florida done now?
Well, for starters, they’ve impounded fined a 78 year old man and impounded his car for running an illegal taxi operation. The problem? He was being a nice old man and gave someone a ride from the grocery store. Turns out that the person that approached him and begged [...]

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I, for one, would love to see a resurgence in political moderates. My generation has pretty much known nothing of the sort in the U.S. legislature. All we’ve seen is the rapid polarization of both parties, the Democrats getting way more liberal, the Republicans getting way more conservative, and the moderates being left in the cold. It’s led to the party leadership to treating politics less as a way to make the United States stronger and more as a means to weaken the opposing party. See: the increased numbers of filibusters in the past decade or so.

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For those of you who don’t follow the news, the California Supreme Court overturned a statewide marriage ban for gay and lesbian couples. Differing politics based on things like the role of the Executive, how we relate with foreign powers, and how to use our military, those things I can completely understand even if I disagree with people. Believing that gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered people shouldn’t be afforded the same rights as everyone else is simply baffling.

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A few days later, a handful of students received a five day suspension for wearing rainbow belts and other symbols that showed their support of fair treatment for the LGBT community. The principal explained that they were being suspended for “(1) belonging to a ’secret society’, (2) threatening to walk out of the assembly, and (3) disrupting the school by being patt of a gay protest.”

I don’t know about you, but any secret society that prominantly displays their alllegiance/membership of said secret society has got to be like the worst secret society ever. It ain’t real secret if you tell everyone about it!

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Laissez faire capitalsm. Basically, letting the market regulate itself. We’ve seen what happens when we let the market regulate itself. Look at working conditions during the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the 20th century. Go read some Upton Sinclair. Just as with communism, capitalism works great until you actually inject a human element to it. Because there’s a human element to it, I don’t think any economic philosophy will work as well as it’s designed because humans are greedy by nature (as opposed to Naughty by Nature).

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