We love Obama, but the White House petition is the worst. It gives a platform to people who previously would have been left muttering on message boards. Right now, the award for dumbest petition goes to Justine Tunney, who is calling on the President
If the NSA added some value to its spying, like managing your Netflix Queue, automatically finding you coupons for pizza and wings, or providing you with an operating system for your smartphone, they'd have none of the problems with public outrage now.
That's not quite true. You have to serve at least five years to vest for pension and health bennies, but the actual amount of vesting is based on total time served. I think you have to log close to thirty years total to reach 100% on the pension.
Justine Tunney doesn't understand Google, Microsoft, Amazon, et. al. They don't want to run the country. They want to be countries.
They already operate as if international borders were meaningless. They shift money around constantly to avoid taxes in one nation or another. They don't want to expend funds on an army, of course. Their defense budgets go towards keeping their technologies safe. And, from time to time, suing each other.
Meh. Rand Paul has a proposal that we just crowdsource the government.
I can't even . . . I . . . Good gawd, y'all.
If the NSA added some value to its spying, like managing your Netflix Queue, automatically finding you coupons for pizza and wings, or providing you with an operating system for your smartphone, they'd have none of the problems with public outrage now.
That's not quite true. You have to serve at least five years to vest for pension and health bennies, but the actual amount of vesting is based on total time served. I think you have to log close to thirty years total to reach 100% on the pension.
Sign me up for Mojito Militant, which I guess is a subset of the Bacardi Socialists.
I pretty much hate his shows, but I've binge-read the vanity cards.
If this idea has legs I'd better get a government job quick!
<i>I think it&rsquo;s time for a peaceful change.</i>
Oh yes. Because all those things are actually within the authority of the president to implement on just a whim.
Hey, Justine. 2 words. Civics. Class.
How many Google employees would like to do a few seven-month deployments to Afghanistan? Not too often, just every seven months or so.
If that doesn&#039;t work, telling &#039;em to defragment the hard disk makes them disappear for a couple of hours.
Alternate: Teddy Cruz tried that a few months back. Didn&#039;t work either.
OK. But only if the Urban Dictionary people get to be Vice President.
Justine Tunney doesn&#039;t understand Google, Microsoft, Amazon, et. al. They don&#039;t want to run the country. They want to be countries.
They already operate as if international borders were meaningless. They shift money around constantly to avoid taxes in one nation or another. They don&#039;t want to expend funds on an army, of course. Their defense budgets go towards keeping their technologies safe. And, from time to time, suing each other.
Joke&#039;s on her. Corporations already run the country.
I&#039;m still trying to wrap my head around what constitutes a &quot;champagne transarchist.&quot;