2012-12-04, 22:24 | Link #3441 | |
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The US right wing likes to wave the "sovereignty flag" most often when trying to divert attention from the stuff kicking them in the ass (like a certain approaching cliff).
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2012-12-04, 22:45 | Link #3442 |
Pretentious moe scholar
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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In Canada, our courts often interpret our domestic laws to be consistent with the treaties we've signed (ie. Baker v. Canada, one of the most important cases in Canadian administrative law, where the Supreme Court said that for procedural fairness purposes, the rights of someone's children must be taken into account when considering whether to grant a humanitarian and compassionate exemption to a deportation order), but I was under the impression American judges tend to be more conservative about that kind of reasoning, at least at present.
(Baker, BTW, can be kind of amusing to read because part of the evidence submitted as to the immigration officer not being "fair and unbiased" were notes about how the appellant was a domestic worker, had eight kids, and still hadn't been deported after several years - IN ALL CAPS. Course, when it comes to "WTF were they thinking" things submitted as evidence in a Canadian administrative law case, it's hard to top Doré v. Barreau du Québec): Spoiler for Actual excerpts from a letter to a judge that landed a lawyer in hot water in Doré v. Barreau du Québec:
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2012-12-05, 00:22 | Link #3443 | |
books-eater youkai
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Fox News Puts Karl Rove on the Bench
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/12...the-bench.html Quote:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/...2101354694400/
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2012-12-05, 12:50 | Link #3444 |
Logician and Romantic
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I just met someone online who called Obama a Tyrant.
Can someone please explain why? Seriously, at this point the opposition does not appear to be talking sense any more. Is there any reason why Obama is labelled as a Tyrant? Or is this just an extra label attached to the Muslim Atheist Jewish Nazi moniker? Has Obama rounded up all the House Republicans and had them all shot? I have trouble finding anything tyrannical. Or did the GOP just invented a new definition for Tyranny? Is it the Obamacare bill? The one that the GOP decided they aren't going to abolish any more because it got too much support? Is it the fact that Obama is trying to fulfil his new campaign promises to the letter? Does anyone in America care what WORDS mean anymore?
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2012-12-05, 12:59 | Link #3445 | ||
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2012-12-05, 13:42 | Link #3448 |
formerly ogon bat
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If you go to animenewsnetwork and look at the thread about loli dictators you will find several people saying that Obama should be included.
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2012-12-05, 14:15 | Link #3449 | |
I disagree with you all.
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2012-12-06, 12:33 | Link #3454 |
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Hmmm so glad to have found this thread!! but so late!! Anyway yea, US politics have gotten pretty bad. If it isn't the media wanting to give everything to the republicans, it's people who are misinforme,d paranoid, and not part of the mainstream being given the platform to say Obama is some kind of manchurian candidate from Kenya.. Though if you say he's from Hawaii, they point out that it's unamerican to attend school outside of the US. That actually really well pisses me off. As someone who went to university overseas in JApan and China, worked in Turkey, got to travel to 12 different countries during this period. My overseas education made me appreciate the US more. I wish that ignorance wasn't something to be proud of in the US, but it seems to be the case. What do you do? I guess make money, accumulate currency, and don't care. :P (The American cure to everything )
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2012-12-06, 16:31 | Link #3456 |
books-eater youkai
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Jim DeMint to resign to head Heritage Foundation
http://www.politico.com/story/2012/1...7.html?hp=t1_3
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2012-12-06, 17:10 | Link #3457 | |
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i wonder how Dole feels, looking at what remain of his party. How much regret does he feel letting the lunatics into the party during the 70s?
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2012-12-06, 18:19 | Link #3458 |
Le fou, c'est moi
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^...I seriously don't understand. Why vote no? The United States lose literally not a single penny, not one pinch of "sovereignty" (whatever the hell that means to these people) for voting for this treaty, which only makes what is already US law part of the international framework of human rights agreements.
They betrayed their own Senator Emeritus that they "honored" in the most cowardly way possible for what? This isn't a major economics bill, no one sane seems to have any objections to it. It wasn't even on the political radar until this traitorous act makes decent people spit in disgust. They have nothing to lose. Do they hate human rights that much? Are they fucking nuts? Last edited by Irenicus; 2012-12-06 at 18:40. Reason: "-ly" |
2012-12-06, 18:22 | Link #3459 | |
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2012-12-06, 18:25 | Link #3460 |
Le fou, c'est moi
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Um, no. This treaty will essentially make US law (the ADA) into international law, and if they want that they should just vote yes. The components and principles of the Treaty are already in the US legal code. Unless they're bizarrely planning to roll back the ADA by some witchery (and doom their party once and for all by making enemies with US veterans), there is absolutely nothing to lose just to honor what's basically Dole's last wish.
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