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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BattleHymn on August 12, 2011, 09:51:02 PM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4958678&mesg_id=4958694
A huge campfire. I almost didn't know where to start. Amongst all of the pissing and moaning, I found lots of DUmmie on Dummie action in this one, of which I rowed over three quick rounds.
Friday Night Fight Night! Let's meet the DUmmie's campfire we'll be fighting around this evening: DUmmie cal04!:
cal04 (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-12-11 01:20 PM
Original message
Appeals court rules against Obama healthcare law
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Edited on Fri Aug-12-11 02:01 PM by cal04
Source: Reuters
An appeals court ruled on Friday that President Barack Obama's healthcare law requiring Americans to buy healthcare insurance or face a penalty was unconstitutional, a blow to the White House.
The Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit, based in Atlanta, found that Congress exceeded its authority by requiring Americans to buy coverage, but also ruled that the rest of the wide-ranging law could remain in effect.
The legality of the so-called individual mandate, a cornerstone of the healthcare law, is widely expected to be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Obama administration has defended the provision as constitutional.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/12/us-usa-healthcare-idUSTRE77B4J320110812 (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/12/us-usa-healthcare-idUSTRE77B4J320110812)
In ring number one, we have rfranklin vs. DesMoinesDem:
rfranklin (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-12-11 01:21 PM
Response to Original message
1. Members of the court appointed by G.W. Bush Junior....
Wanna bet?
Yes. How much do you want to lose?
DesMoinesDem (36 posts) Fri Aug-12-11 01:57 PM
Response to Reply #1
33. One Bush appointee, Two Clinton appointees
Winner: DesMoinesDem
In ring two, HereSince1628 vs. alc:
HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-12-11 02:01 PM
Response to Reply #4
37. Most laws are written so that parts can be struck down without
bringing down the entire law. It's called severability. It would have been real amateur hour to leave this out of a controversal bill.
In three, two, one...
alc (536 posts) Fri Aug-12-11 02:12 PM
Response to Reply #37
45. amateurs wrote this law
Roger Vinson, the federal judge behind today's ruling, agreed with plaintiffs who argued that if the mandate is unconstitutional, the entire law should be struck down.
That's because the legislation lacked the so-called "severability clause,"
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/31/severability-clause-at-heart-of-judge-vinsons-ruling-that-obam/ (http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/31/severability-clause-at-heart-of-judge-vinsons-ruling-that-obam/)
I have no idea if that's a reliable source (first I found in google) or if the supremes would agree. But I have heard this many times before with convincing explanations from reliable sources. There's also the probability that severability doesn't matter since the mandate is what makes the rest of the bill work. Without it, many other things would have to go.
Winner: alc
The final bout of the night pits DUmmie Lasher vs. DUmmie No Elephants:
Lasher (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-12-11 03:12 PM
Response to Reply #78
83. I also hope for the individual mandate's demise. It was a Republican idea to start with.
Insurance company senior executives must be shitting bricks right now.
Yeah, sure. :rotf:
No Elephants (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-12-11 03:18 PM
Response to Reply #83
85. Which Republican? I thought that the Nixon era plan had a business mandate, no
individual mandate?
And the individual mandate first showed up in Hillarycare?
Lasher (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-12-11 04:45 PM
Response to Reply #85
106. Romney was for it, for one.
Edited on Fri Aug-12-11 04:46 PM by Lasher
http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2011/05/12/romney-w... /
I was not aware it was included in Hillarycare. Was it?
I must be living in that one time warp where Romney has never been a Senator or Representative.
No Elephants (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-12-11 05:32 PM
Response to Reply #106
111. I Googled. I can't tell for sure without spending more time, but my best guess is
she had no individual mandate until she ran for President. IOW, I probably had bad info.
No Elephants (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-12-11 05:51 PM
Response to Reply #112
114. Probably not necessary. My original info came from a message board, maybe even this one.
I should know better.
Lasher (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-12-11 09:41 PM
Response to Reply #114
129. What the hell, Elephants, so did mine.
Sometimes it's just fine to speculate.
Oh no! It looks like we have a tie, as DUmmies No Elephants and Lasher knock each other out! :popcorn:
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What a cluster you know what of a thread!
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:rotf: H5 for a great play-by-play, Battle.
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What a cluster you know what of a thread!
That's why I only bothered to bring over the little amount that I did. That thread has enough mess DNA to be a thread twice its size.
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:rotf: H5 for a great play-by-play, Battle.
Ditto! :cheersmate:
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That's not a camp fire, that's the MGM Grand! They must be knee deep in tears and snot over there. :fuelfire:
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Great news.
Great play-by-play. :rotf:
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:rotf: H5 for a great play-by-play, Battle.
A most excellent way of displaying the primitives.
Remarkable, sir!
Awesome.
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That thread is epic - and if the Supreme Court strikes down what is Obama's ONLY tangible 'accomplishment', 'The One' will get to run on four years of debt & misery for naught for his reelection campaign.
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That thread is epic - and if the Supreme Court strikes down what is Obama's ONLY tangible 'accomplishment', 'The One' will get to run on four years of debt & misery for naught for his reelection campaign.
I think you're forgetting that he's made it OK for active-duty military to participate in Gay Pride parades and be openly queer on base.
He's hoping to soon have an entire pejazzled brigade. (nadin will google that)
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He's hoping to soon have an entire pejazzled brigade. (nadin will google that)
I'm not sure I want to . . . :o
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That was an entertaining thread! I strongly recommend rowing over to the island and watching the 'splodin' heads!
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I think you're forgetting that he's made it OK for active-duty military to participate in Gay Pride parades and be openly queer on base.
He's hoping to soon have an entire pejazzled brigade. (nadin will google that)
I knew better than to google that. :thatsright:
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I knew better than to google that. :thatsright:
I'm not Googling it.
I remember a recent trend called Vajazzleing which involved attaching glitter onto places where it really doesn't belong. I'm assuming that Pejazzleing is the male equivalent.
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Oh, oh, oh...I thought of another accomplishment the Kenyan can brag about.
He shut down the U.S. space program, and redirected NASA to conduct outreach to muzzies, whatever that is.
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I'm not Googling it.
I remember a recent trend called Vajazzleing which involved attaching glitter onto places where it really doesn't belong. I'm assuming that Pejazzleing is the male equivalent.
Astute observation. Now, if I can fumble around and see where I left my jug of mind-and-eye bleach, I'll be better.
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harun (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-12-11 10:10 PM
Response to Reply #71
133. Only way to get that is to move to a country with advanced politics. U.S.A. aint it.
If that wasn't so pathetic, it would be funny.
Quick, define "advanced". No swear words allowed.
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harun (1000+ posts) Fri Aug-12-11 10:10 PM
Response to Reply #71
133. Only way to get that is to move to a country with advanced politics. U.S.A. aint it.
"Advanced" as in the enlightened politics of North Korea? or the People's Paradise of Cuba?
No right wing radio there. No govt handouts either.
How about "Advanced" as in socialist Europe? Oh wait...their economies are crashing and they are undergoing austerity measures...No free handouts there either.
The chi-coms are embracing capitalism....muslims hate gays and atheists...Canada is turning conservative, and Israel has Jews...
What nations are the DUmmies preferred havens? Not sure they exist anymore...