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A quick lesson in fiat money… to show you why this whole...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 13:45:00 -0800

A quick lesson in fiat money… to show you why this whole Debt Crisis might not be exactly what you think it is!

The politics of Meteors

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:28:02 -0800

The politics of Meteors

What the Republican Party needs to do to stay relevant, or even...

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:47:50 -0800

What the Republican Party needs to do to stay relevant, or even gain back lost members.

Rubio did WHAT during his SOTU response?

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:34:03 -0800

Rubio did WHAT during his SOTU response?

Video

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:31:31 -0800

Spam email

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:09:00 -0800

Someone has been sending out a Spam email from freedomnetwork@underground.net which is not a valid...

Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal. House Bill 206 making it...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:58:25 -0800

Make Unlocking Cell Phones Legal.

House Bill 206 making it illegal to abort a baby if raped.

Gerrymandering is how the Republicans retained house seats.

The supposed Debt Crisis in the United States is a complete...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:21:00 -0800

The supposed Debt Crisis in the United States is a complete fabrication and was created to do away with as many social programs as possible that took decades to create. Don’t fall for this trick.

No, The United States Will Not Go Into A Debt Crisis, Not Now, Not Ever - Forbes

Here is what I meant by gold (by itself) is fiat money too (since it really doesn’t have any value other than that people think it’s valuable.)

The Flawed Logic of the “Fiscal Cliff” - LA Times

“Deficit” is the Wrong Word and Concept

Debt, Deficits, and Modern Monetary Theory - Harvard International Review

Video

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 05:27:59 -0800

EU Steps to Simplify the English Language

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 07:55:00 -0800

Linguistic Congruence within the European Union 1. Due to its widespread use on the so-called...

Guns don’t kill people, video games do! Here are a couple...

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:03:00 -0800

Guns don’t kill people, video games do!

Here are a couple links describing why the location of the commas in the 2nd Amendment may give the whole amendment a different meaning:

Second Amendment grammar — the Framers parsed it one way, but will the Supreme …

Commas and the Second Amendment

Clause and Effect - New York Times

Tailgating

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:30:18 -0800

Tailgating

Sportsbuddyz - How to Fail at Celebrations - Instant Replay

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:01:00 -0800

Sportsbuddyz - How to Fail at Celebrations - Instant Replay

Filibuster Reform? Is it really reform, or just going back to...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:51:00 -0800

Filibuster Reform? Is it really reform, or just going back to how the Senate is SUPPOSED to operate?

I am back.

Since I was gone, Obama won the election, Carl Rove freaked out on live television because the hacker group Anonymous prevented his computers from stealing the election again.. and the Republicans had to retreat with their tail between their legs..

Actually.. that’s not true.. even though they lost the election and remain a minority in the Senate, the Republicans are using an antiquated rule called the filibuster, to effectively shut down the government down unless the winning party, the Democrats give them everything they want. What? That doesn’t sound right, right?

And as a response, the Democrats are threatening to invoke the Nuclear Option to assure that they can govern as they were elected to.

Filibuster? Nuclear Option? What the hell is going on here?

The filibuster is a tool used by Senators to seize control of the Senate if they don’t want a law enacted.

Some people mistakenly think that it was created to PROTECT the Minority but this can’t be further from the truth.. in fact.. the Filibuster was created by mistake!

Let me explain.

In the early days of the Senate, the simple Majority ruled.

Then one day in 1805, Vice President Aaron Burr, fresh off of killing Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in a duel, decided to get rid of rules in the Senate that he thought were useless. And one such “useless” rule that was eliminated was the Previous Question rule that simply allowed the majority of senators to move on to the next topic if the previous topic seemed to be going nowhere.

Seems pretty innocuous, right?

Well.. no.. in fact, once they eliminated this rule, they suddenly realized that they no longer had the power to stop a Senator from speaking at the podium forever.

Thus the Filibuster was born!

And it’s been used to stop such legislation as Anti-Lynching laws and the Civil Rights act.

 And more recently, it’s been used by the minority of Republican senators, to shut our government down, unless they get everything they want. Which doesn’t seem very democratic right?

Which is where the Nuclear Option comes in. On the first day of session, the Senate has the right to change its rules by a simple majority.. which means that they can do away with the Filibuster and return the Senate back to simple majority rule.. which is what it was meant to be in the first place.

So.. what now that you know that the Filibuster was created by mistake, what do you think about this whole Nuclear Option?

Karl Rove freaking out on live television

he Filibuster was created by mistake!

The killing Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in a duel

ABC station botches Petraeus book cover: ‘ALL Up IN My Snatch’