Today in 'Libertarians are Dumb' News

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Rep. Paul Casts Sole ‘No’ Vote on Oil Spill Subpoena Power

When the House agreed to give subpoena powers to President Barack Obama’s newly formed oil-spill commission, 420 members voted for the plan and only one voted against it: Texas Republican Ron Paul.

A spokeswoman for Paul declined to elaborate on the congressman’s vote.

Paul’s son, Rand Paul, a Republican running for the open U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky, came under fire last month for supporting BP. In an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” he said Obama was “un-American” for criticizing the oil company, and said attacks on BP were part of the “blame game,” where tragedy is “always someone else’s fault.”

What is the rationale for this? I suspect it's something along these lines "Accountability of private companies isn't in the constitution. They should be free to do whatever damage they want - the founding fathers would have wanted it that way." Which would be consistent - and patently wrong, bad, stupid.

Today's poll:
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Newsflash: General McFly(err, McChrystal) was just fired, which is what happens when one combines incompetence with public insubordination.

comedy?

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Winston Winthrope the 3rd was handed his mail by his slave butler. In his pile of mail he had a wedding invitation. How nice, he thought.

You are hereby invited to the wedding of Corporation X to The Almighty Dollar on April 20th, 2010

The ceremony shall be performed by the re-animated corpse of Benjamin Franklin, musical performance by P.Diddy (first dance song that will be played is: "It's all about the Benjamins" followed by "mo money, mo problems") Other notable guests include elected officials from your area and a host of corporations hoping to join the Harem of corporations that The Almighty Dollar has thus far wed

"Do you, Corporation X, solemnly swear to take every action conceivable to make money, until bankruptcy or govt takeover?"
"I do"
"And do you, Almighty Dollar, solemnly swear to never be enough, to cause trouble wherever you go, and to secretly be an ally of Micheal Moore?"
"yeah sure, whatever, where's my beer?"

I now pronounce you a soul-less company whose never ending search for profits will never, EVER harm the poor or under-privileged.

May Ferengi spirits smile upon you.
Awoman.

[hey, it aint funny to 90% of y'all, but so what, I'm writing for the other 10%, don't like it? don't read it]

The Political Compass.

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We recently had a test which showed us ( in the words of those who published the results) that "Self proclaimed Liberals/ leftists were ignorant of economic theory.

And that, i think, is the problem. "Self proclaimed" anybodies should not be taken too seriously till they show some sort of credentials.

And of course, the other thing is that Copnsevative types are depicted as 'smart'. As if money were everything , or could sort everything out.

The fact is that one can be socially consevative and still believe in economic liberalism. Or believe in strict monetarist policies but still find time to smoke pot, use porn and and be outrageously gay!

So, where do we, where do you stand on the political compass? Dare you take the test and find out?

For the record , I am in the same quadrant as Ghandi, Nelson Mandela and the Dalai Lama. You?

http://www.politicalcompass.org/index

there are no right and wrong answers - it's about what you truly believe. Go read the homepage and the into stuff firs and you will see what it's about.

But, the point is that it's not just left/ right. There are two axes that generate 4 basic political positions. which one is yours?