The Glade 4.0

Reuter's article on the proposed bill to "empower government regulators to break up financial firms that pose a risk to economic stability".

Some quotes from the article:



That's a nifty new Presidential power...

As long as the Government is top of the list of too big to exsist- go for it. Until they clean up their own backyard- keep the %##%%# outta others.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

I have no words.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

The executive branch is in charge of this sort of regulation, is it not? Departments like the EPA and the FCC are a part of that branch of government?

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

*headdesk*

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Do you have a comment? I was asking an honest question.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

You know, we used to send anti-trust cases to Court...

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Need a company broken up? There's a Czar for that.

Need salaries capped? There's a Czar for that.

Need to indirectly increase taxes by capping carbon emissions? There's a Czar for that.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

"Czar" is very appropriate.

What you guys need is a colosseum … That I’d pay money to see. Lions and Tigers and Bears.. oh my.

Bread and circuses!

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The Dude abides.

No bid contracts? *crickets*

Selective outrage is selective.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

not sure I understand your reference Monte, or is that just another example of your tendency to point at one side to justify the other?

No, I'm simply amused at how critical folks have become about perceived government overreach now that a liberal is in office.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

So, is there something more to your "no bid" comment, such as something specific, or are you railing against a procurement process based upon your assumptions of its use rather than a reasoned comparison of benefit/fault?

Selective memory is apparently more selective than selective outrage. FarSky, Ladas, Aizle, Diamondeye, Khross, Kaffis, DFK!, Rynar, Xequecal, Elmarnieh, Talya, and Arathain are all expressed displeasure and disagreement with the nature of No Bid Contracts and how the selection process for the companies involved worked while George Walker Bush was in office. The only person who defended them, perhaps because of reasons not readily apparent to most, was Taskiss. He no longer posts here.

The aforementioned list also questioned the authority and viability of the U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, the necessity of invading Iraq, and the questionable policy and containment plans for Afghanistan. Everyone in that list challenged some or all aspects of GITMO.

If you choose to continue painting the Glade in broad strokes because you possess a minority opinion on some subjects; if you choose to continue marginalizing yourself for whatever reasons you have; if you choose to polarize the issues at hand by constantly placing yourself at odds with everyone else, especially where there is more disagreement among parties involved than agreement; then you are doing so for your own reasons and choices. If you find it odd that people attribute motive and agenda to your posting mannerisms, then perhaps, just perhaps, you should refrain from the very behaviors you decry.

The Glade is not an echo chamber. The Glade is not biased one way or another on any political issue. The Conservatives, as you call them, disagree with each other about a wide variety of things and nearly all policy positions. You are not uniquely targeted for anything. Rather, the simple truth is simple: we discuss our differences of opinion which are as many and varied as the topics of discussion.

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Ladas - No, I'm just being snide and trollish. Sometimes the hysteria around here hits a fever pitch, and it gets a little laughable.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

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But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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...uh...did you miss the outcry over the last 9 years about government overreach? Dubya was just as guilty of it as Obama. He just overreached in different ways. (I'd dare say Bush was worse, so far.)

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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You missed the part where he explained that he selects what people were outraged about.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

There was some here, but not much.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

I might agree if you have said "not as much." And then I wouldn't be sure...for every authority-lover who fellatingly praises Dubya, there might be an equal number of Obamessiah worshippers. By far the majority of people you'd call "conservative" here expressed major issues with Georgie-Porgie and his policy of ignoring personal liberty and spending lots of other people's money, let alone his tendency to play with his toy tanks in the sandbox.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I remember very few folks that were critical of those decisions made by the previous administration, especially when we were within a few years of 9-11. Nearly everything was tolerated (again, some disagreed). I remember lots of rows over Abu Grahib, Gitmo, and our policies then.

But its been a very long time, and there's really no way to quantify it.

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It feels like all the people who want limited government really just want government limited to Republicans.
---The Daily Show

Then stop bringing it up?

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The Dude abides.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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