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2011-08-25 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-08-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 And all these decades I lived under the assumption that "Goat Roper" was just a negative slur one used to piss off a cowboy and have a good fight.

Posted by Water Modem 2011-08-25 01:10|| 2011-08-25 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 To hell with DC.

Al sharptom and farakahn are the media and this is the DC we all so need and love.

Posted by newc 2011-08-25 01:35|| 2011-08-25 01:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Something has to save the Debt Deal for Washington, since it obviously isn't going to be the Debt Deal or Washington ....

ION FOX NEWS AM > LOCAL GOVTS ON A JIHAD TO SET UP YELLOW "RABBIT CROSSING" SIGNS ACROSS AMERICA = AMERIKA.

Dare "ANT CROSSING" + "CAUTION - PEBBLES ON GROUND" be next???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-25 01:36|| 2011-08-25 01:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Kinda reminds me of a electric fence once designed to keep snails from crossing the road.

Half an inch high and a mile long.

Posted by Skidmark 2011-08-25 02:28|| 2011-08-25 02:28|| Front Page Top

#5 its broke-back mountain with the government f*&^ing you. They would do the goats if they could. Whoops, they already do.

Hey you, get your stupid regulator off of my goat.
(cue final cut music)

Posted by newc 2011-08-25 02:42|| 2011-08-25 02:42|| Front Page Top

#6 I would think the larger business lobbied for these regulations to put their smaller competitors out of business.

Obama has been learning from the EUSSR.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-08-25 03:41|| 2011-08-25 03:41|| Front Page Top

#7 That's how it works. Use the government as a tool to make sure no small business may progress. #cronycapitalism

Posted by newc 2011-08-25 03:44|| 2011-08-25 03:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Goat raping is still unregulated right? I mean we wouldn't want to upset any of our Islamic friends.

Posted by CrazyFool in the Philippines 2011-08-25 05:26|| 2011-08-25 05:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Jeez, this ISN'T 'The Onion.'

Posted by Glenmore 2011-08-25 07:33|| 2011-08-25 07:33|| Front Page Top

#10 It ain't rape if it's consensual. What's 18 in goat years?

Posted by Perfesser 2011-08-25 08:03|| 2011-08-25 08:03|| Front Page Top

#11 I've never seen an article hit a nerve so hard amongst ham'Burgers as this one. It's as if y'all have a horse in this race. Or is that goat. As usual, it's one big circle-jerk of a post...

Posted by Van Der Groot 2011-08-25 09:56|| 2011-08-25 09:56|| Front Page Top

#12 you're not funny, too insipid to really be insulting, and too ignorant to be effective as a troll. Get some new material. We used to have decent trolls. Now we're stuck with you? Pathetic

Posted by Frank G 2011-08-25 10:21|| 2011-08-25 10:21|| Front Page Top

#13 Federal regulations ARE a goat rope.

Posted by My two cents 2011-08-25 10:34|| 2011-08-25 10:34|| Front Page Top

#14 There really isn't anything the government won't regulate to death, is there?

Posted by DarthVader 2011-08-25 10:40|| 2011-08-25 10:40|| Front Page Top

#15 I've never seen an article hit a nerve so hard

No doubt that's true. But you've drawn that conclusion from your vast three days -- or is it four? -- of experience reading this site, which came on-line in 2002. Your sample size is some very small fraction of a percent of the raw data, clustered rather than randomly sampled -- not nearly enough to draw anything approaching a statistically valid conclusion. The logical fallacy is that of drawing a general conclusion from a specific case, eg "Everyone I know speaks English, therefore all people speak English."

I do hope you don't approach your day job in the same spirit.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-08-25 10:49|| 2011-08-25 10:49|| Front Page Top

#16 It took Google a while to find it. Most links led to articles complaining about it.

But for all to see, believe, and learn, I offer a link to the regulation itself.

Federal Register

Posted by Bobby 2011-08-25 13:46|| 2011-08-25 13:46|| Front Page Top

#17 In a sense, brings up an issue which has been bogging me. Has the government, in effect, federalized the traditional role of labor unions? Look: minimum wages, osha, disability access, protection from discriminatory firing, health benifits, so forth.

Point being, if the fed is going to act like a union, perhaps there should not be unions as it would be redundant and in itself discriminatory.

uncle shakey is a mehpitisiphile, i'd pay no mind, either should be at work, is at work but not crucial to operation, or is up too late to be effective at work the next day. Any rate does not run a business.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-08-25 14:55|| 2011-08-25 14:55|| Front Page Top

#18 mehpitisiphile

Definition, please, swksvoFF. Thanks!

Posted by trailing wife 2011-08-25 15:23|| 2011-08-25 15:23|| Front Page Top

#19 Aztec god of Collective bargaining?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2011-08-25 15:51|| 2011-08-25 15:51|| Front Page Top

#20 I think he's refering to mephistopheles, tw. A man who wagered his sole against the Devi lor in some stories, is the Devil.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-08-25 15:53|| 2011-08-25 15:53|| Front Page Top

#21 "Mephistopheles belongs essentially to literature", according to Encyl. Brittanica. Appropriate.

The Labor Department, though, is indeed a Faustian bargain.

Posted by Pappy 2011-08-25 17:43|| 2011-08-25 17:43|| Front Page Top

#22 Thank you, gentlemen. That makes sense.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-08-25 23:15|| 2011-08-25 23:15|| Front Page Top

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