TheAnvil

Running from the facts still, eh? Taking gender into account in a decision is gender discrimination. Those who discriminate based upon sex are sexists. No negotiation. Fact. Deal with it. Taking race into account in a decision is racial discrimination. Those who discriminate based upon race are racists. No negotiation. Fact. Deal with it. Run from the facts with your tail between your legs as long as you desire. Facts they do remain. Affirmative action is racist and sexist, as are its supporters, the majority of whom are cowards who cannot state what they support. Deal with it. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

That's a stupid idea. Drugs should be legal and taxed for revenue. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

No need for thanks - being somewhat familiar with the term racist and its definition, I don't agree. It is racist- as are its supporters. By definition. Face that fact whenever you like - a fact it does remain. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

I don't think this is very legally cut and dried given the fact that taxpayer $$ infusion vice bankruptcy put AIG in its current state. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO FAIL (I know who was president at the time and don't care). These bonuses are one more reason that beautifully illustrates that point. The bonuses in question were paid under contracts written in MARCH 2008 and were not performance based. The company is not bankrupt (it should be) with access to the requisite cash to execute the terms of its contract. Should companies owned by the State [barf; abhorrent concept] and all employees thereof be exempt from the ex post facto and contract interference protections afforded under the Constitution, Article I, Sections 9 and 10? I think that sets a dangerous precedent and a start down the slippery road to more State control ala the Soviets. Hmm...I can see why Democrats would like that. I do not. With regards to efficient breach, Robert Birmingham in "Breach of Contract, Damage Measures, and Economic Efficiency, 24 Rutgers L.Rev. 273, 284 (1970) (“Repudiation of obligations should be encouraged where the promisor is able to profit from his default after placing his promisee in as good a position as he would have occupied had performance been rendered”. I don't think that the case here, were these bonuses not paid as contracted. I don't like the damned bonuses. The company should be bankrupt. I like throwing these Constitutional protections away even less. [barf] Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Whew! Seems he's been drinking far too much Franziskaner. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Wouldn't that be ex post facto, Counsel?

Anyone who denies racial discrimination is racial discrimination IS a coward. Period. Thanks for agreeing with me.

Your faith in the ubiquity and omnipotence of the State is showing, I do believe.

So foul and fair an argument I have not seen in quite some time. Do enlighten us, Bill, how you jump logically from my answer to your query to this inane deduction that I believe one race different from the other. I don't follow myself. The race of slaves is a matter of historical record - and that race differs depending on which slaves and what period of history you examine. Furthermore, I never refer to anyone other than leftists defending AA as 'liars, bigots, and cowards' in any post on AA. Other topics, yes. AA - no. Let me expound, though I think it obvious. "You're a racist! you don't support AA!" - typical epithet from the left towards any conservative who doesn't support AA. Sometimes stated differently, but the paraphrased insult in quotes above is always the intent. An absolute lie. Liars lie. Those espousing the aforementioned lie are quite obstinately devoted to this opinion...check out the definition of bigot. Quite apropos. Cowards run when faced with something tough...like the fact that AA is racial discrimination, and those who discriminate based upon race are racists by definition. Liars, bigots, and cowards are EXTREMELY appropriate choices of words when describing that crowd of AA supporters. With regards to those who happen to know history and don't fear to face it...I think not. But, think as you like. I always do.

vice become a proponent of racist and sexist programs that you propose? Hmmm...I choose to NOT be a racist or sexist and not care what color anyone is. What a nice choice. Perhaps you'll make it someday! Are you insinuating that poor white folks from rural America deserve their lot in life but that poor minorities do not? T'would seem to follow from that line of reasoning quite readily. Quite a revolting, reprehensible, and uncaring line of reasoning. [barf] Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

There's not really much think to it - history tells us the answer is no. Though one might consider some of the work conditions akin to slavery that many immigrants were forced into upon and for quite some time after their arrival here. Indentured servitude was often little better than slavery in many regards.

And what truth would that be? The fact that we refuse to care what race anyone is, just because left wingers do? Most people who think as I do readily admit that. It's the reason we're refer to so many of your leftist cohorts as liars, bigots, and cowards. Please, by all means, enlighten us. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Last week's ECONOMIST had a great article supporting the decriminalization of drugs. I REALLY think the US needs to start that process.

This thread is hilarious. Policies that take gender into account...policies that use gender as a discriminating factor. Policies that take race into account...policies that use race as a discriminating factor. Policies that take ethnicity into account...policies that use ethnicity as a disciminating factor. Racist and sexist. No exception. No negotiation. By definition. Res ipsa loquitor The majority of left wingers run with their little tails between their legs yelling epithets - mainly forms of projection on their part - about anyone who doesn't subscribe to their racist and sexist policies. Cowards who can neither face nor state the truth about that which they so ardently support. But not Jeanne. She's ADMITTED she supports racial discrimination under its guise! I'm still so proud of you for that. A standout among liberals, you most certainly are, my dear! Absolutely HILARIOUS. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Incorrect in all regards. Any affirmative action program based on race is racially discriminatory in nature by definition. Any such program based upon sex is sexually discriminatory in nature. No exception. No negotiation. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Oh dear God - St. Carl! That is so awesome. Aquinas and Augustine both said things with which I disagree - you've quoted a couple; there are more. Their logic on the death penalty is not among them. I've never heard Aquinas' logic on that subject rebutted by anyone. Nor Augustine's. I rather like City of God and its philosophy of Church, State, City of the World, and City of Heaven. Very interesting philosophical structure. With regards to the State and execution of citizens, I agree with him. Using Augustinian and Aquinan - or would that be Aquinic? - philosophy, it would seem to follow that in today's State, where one perceives the debt of the State to be a more malevolent threat to the general good than the continued life of the criminal in conjunction with the fact that it is less expensive to the State to keep said criminal alive, I think it within the confines of Augustine's philosophical beliefs/ structure to assume the death penalty in that case would be wrong. Aquinas' as well. Being as that mirrors my own current beliefs, perhaps one might call it the Anvil corollary to both Augustine and Aquinas?

I see...nothing to add to the discourse I take it. How predictable. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Er...did you have something to say about Aquinas or Augustine's rationale for support of the death penalty, perchance? Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Not really. Latae sentientae has not been declared for support of the death penalty or participation in its execution - unlike abortion. The reason for this is that one may make a very cogent and Catholic argument in favor of the death penalty. I've no moral issue with the death penalty, rather I am against its use for fiscal reasons. We can't afford it. With regards to its morality, those in opposition rarely wish to discuss why they disagree with St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas in particular and his objections and counters are quite well put. In fact, I can't recall anyone willing to discuss their opposition to the death penalty in context of their disagreement with either of those two doctors of the Church with regards to the death penalty - if they're of the opinion that it's morally unjustifiable, that is. They emulate democrats (except for Jeanne) talking about their support for racial discrimination - they run like cowards because they lack the courage to face facts. I think its use should be discontinued so long as it's fiscally imprudent to execute the convicted. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

True, but the government solution is far, far worse. Nauseatingly so. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Unions suck ass. They've wrecked the American auto industry. Now that they've wrecked that, they want to take away the right to a secret ballot so it's easier for them to intimidate workers into unionizing. The pieces of shit who support this bill will never admit that, however. Losers. [barf] Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Not at all. Different companies, different services performed, different effects on their respective companies, different contracts entirely. Another apples and oranges comparison with no meaning that the wealth envy crowd will tout - to the cheers and affirmation of morons. AIG should have been allowed to go into bankruptcy. Just like GM and Chrysler. [barf] Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Bill et al don't understand that Christians don't have an issue with paying taxes for government. It's over taxation to pay for services that should not be rendered by the government that's the issue. To those who believe in the supremacy of the State, that difference is completely lost. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

I don't think a President is capable of managing the economy. Affect it, yes. Manage, no. Most Presidents don't really affect much until their budget is proposed and appropriations bills passed, but not this guy. He's already got legislation enacted. He's doing horribly. Spendulus and Porkulus - the stimulus [sic] bill and the $400 billion and some change pork bill - are both abominations. Horrid pieces of legislation. Made more horrid by coming in the wake of the TARP and the subsequent violation of the misappropriation act using the TARP to bail out GM/CHRYSLER that the preceding Congress with Bush administration concurrence/collusion thrust upon us. The economic headlines in the year following GWB's inauguration, even prior to his first appropriations bill being enacted, simply scourged the man over his handling of the economy. President Obama has enacted legislation - MAJOR legislation - affecting the economy and is still blaming GWB and his predecessors. With no push back from the Democratic Party's PR arm...er...the media. Compare and contrast that. LMFAO. He's doing horridly, to answer your query. But he's not managing the economy. He's incapable of doing so, as were all of his predecessors. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

T'would depend on what sort of person you are. If you're a lazy dumbfuck with wealth-envy, of course it would. If you're an achiever, in all likelihood it wouldn't. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!