The Goat Pen

I never knew what Romney looked like until I saw that graphic above.

nobody thinks an "uprising" is imminent in the US. the point is the founding fathers included freedom of the press in the bill of rights specifically to help guard against government tyranny. today's press is abdicating that right and responsibility. this is just another bank on what's becoming a very slippery slope of our eroding freedoms. and why are they doing this? THE MONEY yep, it's all about the fucking money.

Bklyn wrote:Methinks it's less about uprising...and more about money. It's always a safer bet to say money is the cause. The net marketplace is making piracy and file sharing too easy without the ability to derive any corporate or governmental income from it...so it has to go.

SOPA is a bitch of a bill, but I see some form of it passing in some way over the next 3 - 5 years.

Our best bet is to speak to it with our dollars. GoDaddy was a supporter of SOPA until a mass effort to switch to a different host by many customers made them change their tune. That's our hope to stop this. The corporate cash that will come into political coffers from film, music and software interests will continue to grow until some form of SOPA is inacted.

GoDaddy was a supporter of SOPA until a mass effort to switch to a different host by many customers made them change their tune.

reddit claims to have been very instrumental in this. supposedly redditors moved thousands of domains off of godaddy to other hosts when it became known that godaddy not only supported sopa but had gotten language written onto the bill exempting them from some of it's effects.

Will any President address Mexico? Fuck the mideast. Its time to fix Mexico, which btw is closer and destroys our country more than some sand niggers thousands of miles away.

there's nothing wrong with Mexico that legalizing drugs and ending welfare wont fix.

Saint wrote:I never knew what Romney looked like until I saw that graphic above.

Huh? You didn't see his speech right before we battled those aliens a few Summers ago?

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He's a hero.

Also

I'm not sure if this is ignorance at play or just the opposition trying to shape the narrative for their benefit, but if I here one more GOP candidate conflate Federalism with Socialism I will scream.

TheBigMook wrote:At least we know what Rat has been up to.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2012 ... pnews|text|

I wonder if they'll let the guy build a deck off the cell?

Last night I was helping my 4th grader study for his History test which they are currently going over the Revolutionary War. He had to learn the beginning part of the Declaration of Independence we all know, "We hold these truths to be self-evident..." etc., etc. ending in "Life, liberty, and the pursit of happiness..." But it is good to read the rest of the document, especially this part:

"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm

The wisdom these men had in defining a free country has always impressed me.

Except for the slavery bit.

Slavery is a great thing for those who aren't slaves

Yeah. TJ railed ag'in it, but kept his slaves anyway..

Hey now, slaves got shit done.

AlabamAlum wrote:Yeah. TJ railed ag'in it, but kept his slaves anyway..

Hey, love is blind.

And I suppose it is easier to own a woman than take a wife.

LaFeyette got tired of hearing the excuses of his hero's as to why it wasn't practical to free their slaves so he decided to show how it could be be done. He bought a plantation (in French New Guinea I believe), freed the slaves there, then said they could leave or stay on wages and he built a school for those that decided to stay. Over the years he continued to expand the operation buying up nearby properties and freeing any slaves that came with those purchases.

Jefferson showed he wasn't above the common man by having sex with their women.

Jefferson showed he was above the basic fetishist and had a relationship, children and a Parisian life with his woman (who was actually his wife's half sister...and came to be owned by Jefferson via his wife).

Now we know what Rat has been up to.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2012 ... RONTPAGE|p

The ladies loved my penis. Even your mom was quoted as saying "Wow. he had a big penis" in this mornings Enquirer.