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  • #466
    Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

    Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
    There's been some talk on this site, at least in the Health Care sections, about Tort Reform. Although not directly related, it's at least a start: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-...s/house-bill/9
    Basically, it's a Loser Pays bill for civil suits, specifically aimed at frivolous claims when you look at all of the outs it gives the judiciary in assessing the payor.
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    • #467
      Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

      Looking forward to the 115th Congress, this makes the stakes just a little higher.

      ... some forms of discrimination against lesbians and gays are now covered by previously existing federal statute, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has found.
      If the Dems could somehow manage in 2016 to hold the WH and squeak back into the majority in both Chambers, ENDA would pass and be signed into law and full legal equality would be achieved.
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      • #468
        Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        Looking forward to the 115th Congress, this makes the stakes just a little higher.



        If the Dems could somehow manage in 2016 to hold the WH and squeak back into the majority in both Chambers, ENDA would pass and be signed into law and full legal equality would be achieved.
        And yet, feminists didn't support the Equal Rights Amendment attempts...

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        • #469
          Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

          I think my first post on this thread said "Lower". "Lower still" is now the operative phrase.

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          • #470
            Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

            Originally posted by joecct View Post
            I think my first post on this thread said "Lower". "Lower still" is now the operative phrase.

            http://m.washingtonexaminer.com/cruz...rticle/2568909
            Still no caning.
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            • #471
              Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
              Still no caning.
              If they've pretty much nixed spanking, what makes you think caning is going to fly?

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              • #472
                Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                If they've pretty much nixed spanking, what makes you think caning is going to fly?
                Let's not bring porn into this.

                Mmmm. Caning...
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                • #473
                  Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                  Too bad this does not happen on this side of the pond

                  https://youtu.be/JqD_1TFhJdw
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                  • #474
                    Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                    Originally posted by joecct View Post
                    Too bad this does not happen on this side of the pond

                    https://youtu.be/JqD_1TFhJdw
                    Well here, the news is the distraction.
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                    • #475
                      Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                      Well here, the news is the distraction.
                      Isn't that usually part of a Mother Russia joke?

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                      • #476
                        Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                        Originally posted by FlagDUDE08 View Post
                        Isn't that usually part of a Mother Russia joke?
                        In Soviet Obamaland, news watches you.
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                        • #477
                          Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                          Meanwhile over in Blighty. When they have a scandal, they have a scandal!

                          http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/brendan...to-be-british/
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                          I want to live forever. So far, so good.

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                          • #478
                            Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                            Originally posted by joecct View Post
                            Meanwhile over in Blighty. When they have a scandal, they have a scandal!

                            http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/brendan...to-be-british/
                            The shrinking of scandal speaks to the shrinking of politics.
                            "I AM big. It's the pictures that got small."

                            Great article.
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                            • #479
                              Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                              This reminds me of the joke about why people took such an instant dislike to Dick Cheney.
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                              • #480
                                Re: The 114th Congress: How Low Can They Go?

                                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                                This reminds me of the joke about why people took such an instant dislike to Dick Cheney.
                                I heard he wanted to take a few people quail hunting.

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