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w1n73rmu7e
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 Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 5:52 pm Post subject: Republicans' new Web site not exactly what they hoped it wou |
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| Washington Post wrote: | Republicans want to take over the House in the fall, but there's a problem: They don't have an agenda.
So on Tuesday, they set out to resolve that shortcoming. They announced that they would solicit suggestions on the Internet, then have members of the public give the ideas a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down. Call it the "Dancing With the Stars" model of public policy.
Republicans were very pleased with their technological sophistication as they introduced the Web site, America Speaking Out a ceremony at the Newseum. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who created the program, said that to get software for the site, "I personally traveled to Washington state and discovered a Microsoft program that helped NASA map the moon."
Using lunar software is appropriate, because the early responses to the Republicans' request for ideas are pretty far out:
"End Child Labor Laws," suggests one helpful participant. "We coddle children too much. They need to spend their youth in the factories."
"How about if Congress actually do thier job and VET or Usurper in Chief, Obama is NOT a Natural Born Citizen in any way," recommends another. "That fake so called birth certificate is useless."
"A 'teacher' told my child in class that dolphins were mammals and not fish!" a third complains. "And the same thing about whales! We need TRADITIONAL VALUES in all areas of education. If it swims in the water, it is a FISH. Period! End of Story."
House Republicans, meet the World Wide Web. |
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*Facestab*
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whatev concerning those first two (not usually taken seriously), but that third one makes me cringe. that's grade A stupid.
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This one wants to make bills easier to read:
| Quote: | | No bill introduced in Congress should be over 100 pages long, should be written in plain English, and when referencing other statutes should contain the wording of those statutes, with the deletions struck out and changes/additions in bold or the existing statute and the revised statute. |
Nevermind that it is a giant run on, he apparently also doesn't think Bills should be written in English.
I tried to go and uprate some of the more retarded comments, but it seems that the most retarded ones are actually serious.
Edit: lol, is this how NASA mapped the moon?
| Quote: | Unavailable: A very high volume of Americans are speaking out right now.
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| drizek wrote: | This one wants to make bills easier to read:
| Quote: | | No bill introduced in Congress should be over 100 pages long, should be written in plain English, and when referencing other statutes should contain the wording of those statutes, with the deletions struck out and changes/additions in bold or the existing statute and the revised statute. |
Nevermind that it is a giant run on, he apparently also doesn't think Bills should be written in English.
I tried to go and uprate some of the more retarded comments, but it seems that the most retarded ones are actually serious.
Edit: lol, is this how NASA mapped the moon?
| Quote: | Unavailable: A very high volume of Americans are speaking out right now.
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Well, a bill size limitation would curb piggy-back fine print in bills with ulterior motives. the 'plain english' bit is where the comment takes the stupid pill. in fact, a small bill would be most likely written in an even more "bill"-like syntax.
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lol
i was just reading through some of the ideas.
i guess they didn't realize that the internet is for porn and trolling. or maybe they do..... (mother of god... I think we've all been trolled).
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| shickapooka800 wrote: | | drizek wrote: | This one wants to make bills easier to read:
| Quote: | | No bill introduced in Congress should be over 100 pages long, should be written in plain English, and when referencing other statutes should contain the wording of those statutes, with the deletions struck out and changes/additions in bold or the existing statute and the revised statute. |
Nevermind that it is a giant run on, he apparently also doesn't think Bills should be written in English.
I tried to go and uprate some of the more retarded comments, but it seems that the most retarded ones are actually serious.
Edit: lol, is this how NASA mapped the moon?
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Well, a bill size limitation would curb piggy-back fine print in bills with ulterior motives. the 'plain english' bit is where the comment takes the stupid pill. in fact, a small bill would be most likely written in an even more "bill"-like syntax. |
If you read what he said, it was "No bill introduced in Congress should be... written in plain English".
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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| drizek wrote: | | shickapooka800 wrote: | | drizek wrote: | This one wants to make bills easier to read:
| Quote: | | No bill introduced in Congress should be over 100 pages long, should be written in plain English, and when referencing other statutes should contain the wording of those statutes, with the deletions struck out and changes/additions in bold or the existing statute and the revised statute. |
Nevermind that it is a giant run on, he apparently also doesn't think Bills should be written in English.
I tried to go and uprate some of the more retarded comments, but it seems that the most retarded ones are actually serious.
Edit: lol, is this how NASA mapped the moon?
| Quote: | Unavailable: A very high volume of Americans are speaking out right now.
Please wait a moment and try again. |
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Well, a bill size limitation would curb piggy-back fine print in bills with ulterior motives. the 'plain english' bit is where the comment takes the stupid pill. in fact, a small bill would be most likely written in an even more "bill"-like syntax. |
If you read what he said, it was "No bill introduced in Congress should be... written in plain English". |
yeah I know. and I said the "plain english" comment was stupid. but if worded by someone with more than a 5th grade education, I could be convinced to support a bill size limitation. not for the purpose of "johnny everyman" being able to read it, but to curb sneaky tweeks that try and weasel their way into a bill.
in any event, this thread isn't about serious discussion, it's about laughing at one of the poorest excuses for a serious website to date.
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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Suffice it to say that someone asking for bills to be written in "plain English" probably wasn't at the top of their high school English classes.
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 6:48 pm Post subject: Re: Republicans' new Web site not exactly what they hoped it |
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| w1n73rmu7e wrote: | | Using lunar software is appropriate.... |
Indeed. Bunch of lunatics.
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| shickapooka800 wrote: | | yeah I know. and I said the "plain english" comment was stupid. but if worded by someone with more than a 5th grade education, I could be convinced to support a bill size limitation. not for the purpose of "johnny everyman" being able to read it, but to curb sneaky tweeks that try and weasel their way into a bill. |
Highly unlikely. The Republicans need that to pass their retarded laws. Things like adding a puppy culling law onto a bill about funding for animal welfare. |
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| Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| there is no way that last comment about the teacher and mammals is real. that must be a democrat trolling their site. No one is that stupid. |
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| juniper wrote: | | there is no way that last comment about the teacher and mammals is real. that must be a democrat trolling their site. No one is that stupid. |
Have you visited rural America?
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*shiver*
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Bad design is bad
If they want a landslide victory this November, they should have their web designer go work for the dems.
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| Chopinzee wrote: | Bad design is bad
If they want a landslide victory this November, they should have their web designer go work for the dems. |
It looks like someone has scribbled on some used toilet roll. |
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| pitcrawler wrote: | | Chopinzee wrote: | Bad design is bad
If they want a landslide victory this November, they should have their web designer go work for the dems. |
It looks like someone has scribbled on some used toilet roll. |
Worst professional web designer : Hey, what do you think about a site that looks like scribble on a used toilet roll?
John Boehner : That's a great idea, don't forget to include convoluted grammar and arguments about whales and fish!
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| Quote: | | Consensual love is just that; consensual. There is no reason to forbid two intelligent consenting entities from engaging in relations, logically, because legislating a victimless crime on the basis of morality is against the American way. Therefore, the government should stop misusing Animal Abuse laws to convict zoophiles and remove them from their animalistic loved ones. Consensual bestiality should not be illegal. No, I am not joking. Everything I've said is logically sound. |
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| drizek wrote: | | Quote: | | Consensual love is just that; consensual. There is no reason to forbid two intelligent consenting entities from engaging in relations, logically, because legislating a victimless crime on the basis of morality is against the American way. Therefore, the government should stop misusing Animal Abuse laws to convict zoophiles and remove them from their animalistic loved ones. Consensual bestiality should not be illegal. No, I am not joking. Everything I've said is logically sound. |
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You have a problem with guys fucking fat pigs?
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There are not nearly enough funny hats in the government. Please institute a hat policy similar to that of the vatican where the hilarity of the hat scales with the importance of the government official.
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There are not nearly enough funny hats in the government. Please institute a hat policy similar to that of the vatican where the hilarity of the hat scales with the importance of the government official.
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That's a good idea. Politicians are clowns in the first place, might as well dress them as such.
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| Quote: | | We need to ensure that the Republicans never give us up, let us down, run around, or desert us. |
Come on people. It's not 2008 any more. |
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It just keeps getting better: | Newsweek wrote: | 'We Need to Train an Army of Ninja Cats': A GOP Site Gets Hijacked
Be careful what you put on the Internet, Republicans. The Internet just might use it.
Yesterday, the GOP unveiled America Speaking Out, a Web site that promises to "change the way Congress works by proposing ideas for a new policy agenda." Visitors, presumably of the Republican persuasion, are invited to make their own suggestions in four broad categories: American prosperity, fiscal accountability, American values, and national security. The idea is that citizens can speak up on these topics, vote up or down on each others' proposals, and the best thoughts will bubble to the top—maybe even becoming part of the Republican platform come November.
Visitors haven't exactly been playing by the rules.
As Dana Milbank writes in today's Washington Post: "House Republicans, meet the World Wide Web." Though the architects of America Speaking Out, including Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R.-Calif.) and Rep. Peter Roskam (R.-Ill.), are touting its technical sophistication, by midafternoon Wednesday the site had been overrun by prankish submissions. The few high-minded ideas about the federal budget and terrorism have been drowned out by submissions that are inane, racist, absurd, physically impossible, and other qualities that aren't what the GOP hoped to hear.
While many are obviously jokes, some walk a hard-to-detect line between satire and slightly unhinged. The site is almost too bogged down to load currently ("A very high volume of Americans are speaking out right now," an error message reads), but if you can click through, here are 10 of the silliest submissions hijacking the service:
- "We need to train an army of Ninja Cats. Cats are natural born hunters and predators, and it is known that they indeed have 9 lives, many more than the typical human life (being one). They are also excellent at hiding themselves and would be ideal for sneaking into countries and assassinating communist leaders to lessen the ever growing threat of communism, finding key terrorist leaders and shattering the global terrorist network. In fact they could be potentially useful in the current Korean crisis. Loyal to their trainers, the cats could rain destruction and fear throughout the world, and if ever captured would never tell who they are serving. Finally, after they have solved the worlds problems, they could serve as border patrol and show unflinching resolve at keeping illegals where they belong, anywhere but here."
- "Sometimes when I get to the bottom of the yogurt cup, the shape makes it harder to get the last bites. I tried using both a spoon and a fork, with some luck. I think Yoplait should redesign their package so it's easier to get to the bottom of the yogurt."
- "I know this guy in Nigeria he says he's going to inherit a lot of money, but he needs our help to get it. All we have to do is wire him some cash and in return he'll give us part of the money that he will be inheriting. This would be a good way to balance the national budget deficit."
- "STOP STEALING OUR WATER! I was watering my plant the other day and I noticed all the water disappeared! WHAT has the state of LIBERAL politics gotten to when your water is vanishing from everywhere!! Sometimes I go to the bathroom and there's no toilet paper either, they should FIX that!"
- "Make iPhones available through Verizon! AT&T has fairly poor service and coverage, and a lot of Americans would love to own an iPhone but would not sign up with AT&T." [Ed.--Actually, this is a very reasonable suggestion.]
- "Give a pair of truck nutz to all americans! Because there's nothing more manly and american than a pair of balls hanging from your pickup truck. Take THAT Al Qaeda!"
- "Require all Muslims in the U.S. to wear ankle bracelet transponders so we know where the terrorists are at all times."
- "End the LYBERAL MITH OF EVOLUSION. My granddaddy wasnt no monkey."
- "We're wasting our time protecting the sanctity of marriage by merely targeting gay marriage. We should immediately criminalize divorce."
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| trucknutz wrote: | | Give a pair of truck nutz to all americans! Because there's nothing more manly and american than a pair of balls hanging from your pickup truck. Take THAT Al Qaeda! |
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God Bless the internets!
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