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Are vegetables going to be mentioned as well?
Can't wait for the inevitable comment about how racist and divisive labeling some things as "fruits" and others as "vegetables"
Let's not lose our sense of humor over the next couple of months.
not two, four years. The Election 2012 cycle will start in December 2008, if it hasn't started already. This is the regularly scheduled programming.
This seems like a good time to introduce the idea for "continuous demoncracy". What with the internets and all, I'm curious to see how a "continuous election" would work.
That is, each citizen gets one vote that they can change at any time, presumably by logging onto some government web site. The rules would be that to gain office, a candidate needs some fairly high majority, say 55% or 60%, and to get kicked out, votes in his favor would need to decline to a lower value, say 40% or so.
(Just a reminder for those who have forgotten.)
--PtM
The name sounds familiar. Isn't that the name of the guy who devised the system of no-confidence votes for Weimar?
No. It's mostly about fruit.
Dunno, think it is irrelevant since he is on the way out.
Instead, lets discuss Obama's insistence he is a "Professor of Law" - he did draw attention again to being a professor of law yesterday after Palin hurt his feelings.
It's not just that, from my European perspective, it's an election between a right wing bible thumper and McCain, i.e. right wing and very right wing. Obviously a US based blog is going to see that differently. But I read this blog to read about the law, or, better still, about metajuridica (law &economics, legal history, etc.) So I hope that "regularly scheduled programming" = all that and then some.
Would that be the forbidden fruit of the creationist story?
Do Europeans have any concept of libertarianism in their philosophical Weltanshauung? Obviously, this question calls for generalization; I'm asking for a digest of your personal experience.
Why do you think it'd be so paralyzing? And, even if it was, so what? Couldn't that be a good thing?
Go to the homepage and scroll down to the One Act Play. All is revealed therein.
In Europe, generally, there are liberal parties in most countries. (Here is a list of the national parties that make up ALDE, the liberal group in the European Parliament. And remember, liberal = working for liberty. AFAIK, the word libertarian was invented in the US when liberal was given another meaning.)
However, while they are more libertarian than the rest of the political spectrum, and are indeed the alternative to the two other major groups of Christian-Democrats/Conservatives and Socialists, they could hardly be described as libertarian in any real sense. The variation goes from the LibDems in the UK, who are, to put it nicely, somewhere half way between the Tories and Labour, to the FDP in Germany, who are about as close as you're going to get, on a good day. (I would like to offer nice words for the VLD in Belgium as well, but their problem is that they were created as a merger between many different parties not too long ago, and that shows.)
At the moment, in most countries the discourse is very much conservative vs. progressive, focusing on issues that don't fit very well in a libertarian Weltanschauung, such as immigration and questions of national identity. On such questions, liberal parties tend to side with the conservatives, i.e. anti-immigration and arguing in favour of a strong concept of national identity, which immigrants would be expected to adopt to some extent. (I know, don't even get me started.)
We'll see what happens if the artists sue.
I'd guess McCain will stop using the song rather than fight a suit. Fighting suits is distracting during a campaign. The illwill isn't worth it either.
Maybe they can find a pitbull with lipstick song?
The United States, unlike Europe, does not recognise a moral component of copyright. Europeans are able to control not just the dissemination of their works, but the alteration and uses to which they are put. The U.S. is much more free-wheeling: generally, if you pay the licensing fee (or fall under the broader fair use exceptions), you may use the music.
As mentioned in the Hot Air thread, if the artists sold some of their copyright rights to a third party, who sells the licenses, then there is almost no way that Heart can stop the RNC from using this.
I wonder if they would try some kind of libel or defamation approach: associating us with those GOP neanderthals ruins our reputation.
Nancy?!!
Why does every have to pick on the Neanderthals? What was so bad about being a Neanderthal?
Talk about racism!