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[Nadaka]

Just this one time, I don't have something bad to say about Texas.

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/a-texas-cell-phone-bill-would-bar-warrantless-location-data

[alway]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/07/justice/new-mexico-inmate-settlement/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
Man in New Mexico jailed for 22 months w/o trial, then put in solitary confinement and basically ignored.

[SalmonGod]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/07/justice/new-mexico-inmate-settlement/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
Man in New Mexico jailed for 22 months w/o trial, then put in solitary confinement and basically ignored.

Saw that story on my feed today.  Haven't actually read it yet.  There's been a significant spike in horrific police stories over the last week or so.  Another one I saw today was a man beaten nearly to death on the side of the road for refusing a warrantless vehicle search by Denver police.

[MonkeyHead]

School boards to be allowed to let school staff carry guns in schools in South Dakota. WHAT THE FUCK? How will allowing more guns into a school make a school shooting less probable in any way, shape or form? I dispair, I really do.

[Owlbread]

Well, the presumption is that teachers will be able to shoot perps. I think the NRA or whatever talked about the headmistress of that school in Sandy Hook and how she may have been able to stop things if she had been armed.

Plus, I'm sure most teachers won't bring in guns. It'll probably be one or two in the whole school.

[Dutchling]

School boards to be allowed to let school staff carry guns in schools in South Dakota. WHAT THE FUCK? How will allowing more guns into a school make a school shooting less probable in any way, shape or form? I dispair, I really do.

If there is a problem, you need to add more guns until the problem is solved. Obviously.

[Max White]

The theory goes like this: You pull the trigger on a machine gun until the whole world turns into blood, and it is awesome. You can't argue with that; that's science.

[GlyphGryph]

Maybe someone could jog my memory... I think it was in this thread.

There was a popular conservative idiom mentioned that's used quite a bit nowadays, along with the obvious explanation of how it means the exact opposite of what people use it for. But I can't remember anything more than that! Can anyone help?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

There are a lot of nonfunctional conservative idioms. Any idea what issue it was related to?

[Max White]

The only one I know of is 'Two Wongs don't make a White'. Although the guy who said it was actually left wing so...
Also it is as racist as it sounds.

[GlyphGryph]

Something economic, I believe. Ugh, it was like in the last week and a half. It's so frustrating.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

You Have To Spend Money To Make Money, in regards to why we should cut the budget and lower taxes?

[Frumple]

The rich/businesses as job makers? Dunno if that was this thread or another one but it came up. And yeah, th'concept is so backassward it's almost surprising it gained traction. Consumers (/demand) are what causes an increase in employment, and despite having an overwhelming amount of the resources th'high wealth folks don't increase demand nearly proportionally to what they take in/hoard (surprise surprise, money stagnating in a bank or tied up in land is bad for the economy!). Regarding businesses, they only hire more folks if they've got more business than they can handle, not just 'cause they're making more money.

Was a canceled TED talk that put the concept more elegantly. Though that's definitely not something that came up in the last week and a half. Might be a bit iffy on the exact opposite bit, too.

[Boea]

I'm just going to put out an old idiom.

"A rolling stone doesn't gather moss."
Nowadays, it's attributed to rogues, and mavericks, and rebels, in a sort of exalting way.
Back then, about the time of its creation, it was about how useless, and unsupportive a person is if they don't settle down, and do responsible things.

[Owlbread]

You Have To Spend Money To Make Money, in regards to why we should cut the budget and lower taxes?

That's Keynesianism, isn't it?