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SOTU and (hypermasculine, barbaric, uncouthly Romanesque) SuperBowl media day open thread

Peyton Manning is cordial. Marshawn Lynch doesn’t like speaking to the media much. Obama likes to hear himself talk and believes that we should be compelled to listen — and if not listen, to do as he says anyway. The GOP will respond by assuring us that they too care. As if that’s something anyone anywhere gives two shits about.

There. My job as CITIZEN JOURNALIST is done.

141 Replies to “SOTU and (hypermasculine, barbaric, uncouthly Romanesque) SuperBowl media day open thread”

  1. newrouter says:

    They just made the best of things. One of the least appreciated benefits of localized, individualized solutions is that they mitigate the control lag effect. There is less likelihood of one set of people living in the remembered “best of times” while another live in the actual “worst of times”. But I doubt that many pundits will see it that way. For them it will be a case of class warfare as usual. The term itself is redolent of 19th century connotations. But then, while we live in the 21st century, the great majority of our political and intellectual leaders still live in a mental world some hundreds of years old.

    link

  2. George Orwell says:

    I’d listen to SOTU but I can’t find a translator fluent in bullshit.

  3. BigBangHunter says:

    – Bumblefuck claims “we” support his shit, so that makes it settled science for the braindead Progressives. 38% approval and dropping by the week – yeah they’re not too good at math.

  4. newrouter says:

    john effin”kerry leads the circus tonite

  5. leigh says:

    Ach! The schmaltz! He lies!!

  6. palaeomerus says:

    The idiot is still campaigning. That’s all the idiot can do. Tell us his failures are awesome and he plans to do good stuff…and anyone who doesn’t like his plans doesn’t want good stuff and wants to keep other people from enjoying the good stuff. Year effing 6 and he’s still campaigning.

  7. palaeomerus says:

    You should elect me because I want…

    WE DID ELECT YOU AIR-HEAD ASSHOLE! TWICE! THIS IS YOUR MESS YOU ARE TRYING TO SIMULTANEOUSLY PASS OFF AS A SUCCESS AND A PROBLEM THAT WE NEED YOUR HELP TO FIX!

    Well…you’re a racist. Also fuck congress. I’m gonna do what I want.

  8. Danger says:

    Zero seems to think if he speaks at mach 2 it’ll be a game changing speech.

  9. Danger says:

    Natural gas good stuff, but don’t wanna export it. Nope hate to improve our trade deficit.

  10. Danger says:

    Solar power investment = money drain and crony scheme mechanism.

  11. palaeomerus says:

    Oh yeah. Obama save Ford. Sure.

  12. palaeomerus says:

    Detroit just went broke clown.

  13. Danger says:

    Imigration reform: it’s time to refill the democratic coffers with some voters naiive to the effects of obamacare.

  14. Danger says:

    Reforming unemploying insurance, BUT FIRST, EXTEND IT!

  15. Danger says:

    Reform = make permanent

    Simple equation people.

  16. palaeomerus says:

    “Solar power investment = money drain and crony scheme mechanism.”

    Yeah. Materials science just isn’t there yet. And the whole idea of stirling engines in the focus of parabolic collectors that rotate to face the sun is a HUGE infrastructure project that we frankly can’t afford to do as one huge monolithic project. And nobody wants to support a gradual growth version of that. So yeah, solar and wind are a joke as anything but supplemental sources.

  17. palaeomerus says:

    The same nimrod who thought doctors like to remove feet and tonsils unnecessarily for the fees and need to be watched and stopped from doing that, is telling us how the employment economy needs to work.

  18. palaeomerus says:

    Kerry looks like he is reliving a dark and very classified night in Laos with his lucky hat.

  19. leigh says:

    Head-start, yo!

  20. palaeomerus says:

    Pre-K because we need to get in your kids heads before they are even five.

  21. Danger says:

    Paleo,
    Someone should have said CoughSolyndraCough.

  22. palaeomerus says:

    Joe looks like he is trying to figure out how shotguns work.

  23. Danger says:

    What does zero know about jobs? ANY JOBS?

  24. leigh says:

    Equal pay!!

  25. palaeomerus says:

    Dude, your standardized national educational system IS the tough odds that young men of color face that causes them to stumble and drop out so often.

    And now the women earn $.75 on the man’s $1 calumny.

  26. Danger says:

    Women make less then men? Maybe zero should take a pay cut to even up the field a bit.

  27. palaeomerus says:

    Men are way more unemployed that women right now. So let’s focus on helping women! Because Mad men! On TV!

  28. palaeomerus says:

    Women in an aggregate going back to the 70’s make .75 what a man makes “for equivalent work” (whatever the hell that is).

    And somehow that’s proof that we need equal pay controls to be put on companies from on high.

  29. Danger says:

    I think Obama should raise his family in Poverty.

    The sooner the better.

  30. Danger says:

    Give America a raise and pay $20 for a happy meal.

  31. Danger says:

    I will direct the Treasury to create a new way to track and tax more of your hard earned money!

  32. palaeomerus says:

    “Give America a raise and pay $20 for a happy meal.”

    Give amaerica a raise and watch brownbagging come back in style. Oh sorry, in Oregon that’s paper bagging. Meaning bring you own lunch. Because the term brown bag is all dog whistle racisty now eve though in 42 two years I never heard it used that way once by anybody anywhere.

  33. leigh says:

    Hold it. This was a while back, but he said “federal investment gave us Facebook and Google.”

    *facepalm*

  34. Danger says:

    Fixing Health care: the Prez made a funny.

  35. palaeomerus says:

    “We’re in the process of fixing the broken health care system. ”

    THANKS OBAMA! If this were a soft drinking game that would be a pitcher and a half right there.

  36. Danger says:

    9 million trillion! Obama is getting his Dr Evil on.

  37. palaeomerus says:

    “Hold it. This was a while back, but he said “federal investment gave us Facebook and Google.” –

    Al Gore made the internet. Darpa was just keeping it warm for him.

  38. palaeomerus says:

    Don’t frown Boehner. You helped build this shitpile that’s about to collapse on us.

  39. leigh says:

    PresO says “Give America a raise” I hear “I have no clue what it takes to run a business, what the hell do I care?”

    Eric Bolling

  40. Danger says:

    You can’t charge more for insurance premiums for HIV Positive transgendered bipolar diabetics.

  41. Danger says:

    Can you republicans throw me a life-rope that I’ll grab while demonizing you?

  42. newrouter says:

    if the gop had balls they’d stop this clown now, read his prepared remarks into the con. record and then give the true sotu

  43. Danger says:

    Give me your guns so you’ll be safer. Cops cant keep movies safe because of civilians with guns.

    Wait, what?

  44. palaeomerus says:

    Now is the time for smart diplomacy.

  45. Danger says:

    Unified Afghanistan WTFO ZERO?

  46. Danger says:

    Oh yeah a piece of paper will stop those terrorists.

  47. leigh says:

    I won’t send our troops into harms way. . . . much.

  48. palaeomerus says:

    By not being Bush, I will ask the world to play nice and fuck Israel over for peace, insult the UK and also I have a peace prize. Also the military has more gay people now and women can have guns and go on combat missions if they pass the test thing. And we will let our troops have submarines and not send them useless bayonets.

  49. Danger says:

    Hello Benghazi is calling on the white phone Mr. President.

  50. Danger says:

    Reform Drone rules! (just as soon as I’m not president)

  51. Danger says:

    CLOSE GITMO! (lifelong secret service for me suckers)

  52. palaeomerus says:

    That’s weird. Luntz’s “approval-meter” graph has independents tracking with republicans instead of dems.

    Maybe Boehner did it, and finally won over the independents by acting like a democrat collaborator.

  53. newrouter says:

    how effin’ scary : the leadership of usa; shotgun joe, choom and orangeman

  54. leigh says:

    Palestinian state, but a safe Israel.

  55. newrouter says:

    nuke the capitol now!

  56. Danger says:

    Paleo isn’t playing fair. He’s read ahead or at least not pretending to not have heard this all before.

  57. palaeomerus says:

    Leigh, Jordan almost became a “Palestinian state” in 1970 (a year before I was born) and 71 . And it did not happen in a nice democratic way. British mercs put a stop to it which is why Arafat ended up in Jerusalem in the first place.

  58. Danger says:

    Zero is delusional. Someone should tell him to pick up a history book and point out how Hitler used peace treaties for tactical advantage.

  59. palaeomerus says:

    NY, orangeman doesn’t lead. He just blocks GOP shots when they get close to the basket.

  60. Danger says:

    No-other county does what we do? Irony bounds

  61. leigh says:

    Yeah, palaeo. It’s been a rumble ever since.

    Is this informerrcial almost over?

  62. palaeomerus says:

    No! A major GOP plank is to deny all military access to health care! Obama can’t do this! Waaaah!

  63. Danger says:

    More Irony, veteran benefits just cut but zero is fighting for us.

    With friends like him…

  64. palaeomerus says:

    Next he’ll tell me to stop dumping barrels of poisoned nuclear oil into the oceans and burning giant piles of tires!

    This is intolerable!

  65. Darleen says:

    Wait? You’re really watching SOTU??

    I’d rather wax my lady bits …

  66. palaeomerus says:

    Corey wishes that fat guy wouldn’t lean on him so hard.

  67. palaeomerus says:

    Oh! The fat guy is there to hold him up. Maybe his dad?

  68. Danger says:

    democracy is never easy for a tyrant.

  69. palaeomerus says:

    I was wondering why he was invading the marine’s space so damned much! Now I know! I figured he was just a big fat old slumper oozing over into the neighboring chairs.

    Okay, I apologize,

  70. Danger says:

    My eyes are cast on the day this putz is in our past.

  71. palaeomerus says:

    WHAT is within our reach? Three years just like the last five? Fuck that,

  72. newrouter says:

    well baracky is sortof a c***

  73. newrouter says:

    but more likely a dicktator

  74. newrouter says:

    definitely an a**hole

  75. Danger says:

    Let’s see what colors Luntz shows.

  76. palaeomerus says:

    hy not pass a dcrease in the maximum wage? Shit we’ll just be France with 30% permanent unemployment monster taxes, a flat economy, big debts, and 35 hour work weeks with yearly furlough periods. Oh wait…we’re there. My bad.

  77. palaeomerus says:

    “hy not pass a dcrease” -> Why not pass a decrease

  78. palaeomerus says:

    I’m sorry fat guy who was helping Corey! I thought you were being a bad seatmate but you were helping! I went off half cocked and misjudged what I saw, and am in the wrong!

    It probably doesn’t matter anyway since I’m so boring.

  79. Danger says:

    Wait? You’re really watching SOTU??

    You just keep an eye on ol Mandy and we’ll suck it up and translate the zerospeak ;^)

  80. leigh says:

    I want to see the penphone.

  81. palaeomerus says:

    Why are they asking Krauthammer? Krauthammer thinks he came up with the clever way to dump Harriet Miers and took five months to realize that Obama was not a cautious and canny centrist.

    I hope Beck shits all over this mess tomorrow. But he’ll probably focus on other things. He kind of said to expect less Obama commentary this year since the prezbo was taking over his show and Beck wants to be a uniter and not a divider. And he’ll try to sell me gold, an online backup service, and vacuum packed mac and cheese. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  82. newrouter says:

    oh good an official gop c***

  83. palaeomerus says:

    Kathy McMorris is getting high marks from the Luntz group of indpendentss and republicans. But she’s staring right into the camera instead of letting it watch her, so she’s not video savy. She’s sing songing a little bit.

    They took the Luntz tracking off just as she started to talk about abortion too, I notice. Oh Fox.

  84. leigh says:

    Beck’s on a story about demonic possession in Indiana (I think) of late.

  85. newrouter says:

    we be doing exorcism nationwide. evil peeps.

  86. Danger says:

    They took the Luntz tracking off just as she started to talk about abortion too, I notice. Oh Fox.

    On Fox News it’s been off more than it’s been on. Don’t know if that’s a Directv characteristic, though.

  87. McGehee says:

    What the Klingon President says is not important, and we do not hear his words.

  88. palaeomerus says:

    He’s a vulcan.

  89. dicentra says:

    WTF?

    You guys watched?

    Whatsa matta with ya?

  90. dicentra says:

    I’d rather wax my lady bits …

    I’d rather wax your lady bits, too, and yes there is very much something wrong with that.

    Which shows how badly I didn’t want to watch SOTU.

    THAT badly.

  91. newrouter says:

    steyn lady chimes in

  92. Danger says:

    Whatsa matta with ya?

    Darleen has Mandy,
    You have the atheist discussion boards.

    Cant we have something too? ;^)

  93. Danger says:

    “steyn lady chimes in”

    Just more reason to feel unworthy.

  94. geoffb says:

    MyIRA“-not.

  95. McGehee says:

    He’s a vulcan.

    Vulcans are logical. He’s at best a Romulan. An inept Romulan. He’s the crew member from “Balance of Terror” who was played by the same guy that played Stonn in “Amok Time.”

  96. Danger says:

    “You watch Beck? Hahahahaha. No wonder your so simultaneously angry and stupid.”

    Says the guy who’s a believer in the guy who thinks he’s fixing healthcare.

  97. newrouter says:

    >You watch baracky Beck? Hahahahaha. No wonder your so simultaneously angry and stupid<

    hi msnbc!/nation/ cbsnbsabcnprnyt

  98. newrouter says:

    >No wonder your so simultaneously angry and stupid<

    hi ed shit for brains

  99. newrouter says:

    >You watch Beck?<

    you watch proggtard?:

  100. Slartibartfast says:

    No wonder your so simultaneously angry and stupid.

    Said the guy who can’t seem to keep straight the difference between a possessive and a contraction.

  101. happyfeet says:

    food stamp is stale

    you can try wrapping him in a warm moist towel

    but MyRAs? Really? MyRAs are his fucking answer? That’s all you got you stupid useless piece of shit? MyRAs?

    Fuck you.

  102. palaeomerus says:

    “You watch Beck? Hahahahaha. No wonder your so simultaneously angry and stupid.”

    Yeah, there’s nothing immature, stupid, angry, or knee jerk in THAT response is there steve-eh?

    No wonder you were banned as a troll. Nearly everything you say is a smug, stupidly cartoonish, self aggrandizing stereotype fit only for a gormless dullard to recite. It’s really a shame that you can’t manage any hint of creativity despite all this animus you carry around for a board that cast you out.

    Shoter palaeomerus : 1. Skim until Offended (Glen Beck) 2. Disqualify that Opinion (YOU SOUND ANGRY variant) 7. Concern Trolling (No wonder you…)

    Also, last but not least, let me say ‘fuck off idiot’.

  103. palaeomerus says:

    Actually, I listen to Beck. To me he’s more of a radio talent and even then he’s better with Pat and Stu there to keep him moving.

    And he’s never told me to shoot a doubled barrel 12 gauge shotgun into the air twice to scare off home invaders either like our idiot biker molesting vice president. Or told me that a mortar attack and several hour long siege in Benghazi was because of a youtube video.

    Nor did he tell me that I could keep my insurance if I liked it.

    So yeah, I listen to Beck.

  104. newrouter says:

    havel
    The fact that the establishment gave the task of
    defending its positions to the usual political and journalistic hacks
    was probably a case of Hobson’s choice in an emergency, but it
    gained it nothing and was just one further error, since those gentlemen’s
    standards are notorious. As could be expected, they immediately
    brought into play against the Charter a whole set of slanders,
    distortions, abuse, half-truths and absolute falsehoods which all
    represent the dismal range of their capacity. Ispeak from experience
    as one who has been a favourite target for their sort of behaviour for
    the past thirty years, and who could well lay claim to the laurels of
    seniority and worthy service. Though the powers that be may not
    know it, or rather, would sooner not know it, nay, cannot afford to
    know it (for where else would they find more obedient, unscrupulous
    and servile creatures), the media are the principal, albeit
    unintentional, creators and encouragers of opposition, since they
    are totaJIy suspect and nobody believes them. People almost automatically
    take for gospel the opposite of what the papers say. Once
    all-powerful, the media were capable of pointing the finger that
    condemned people to death.

  105. palaeomerus says:

    “Vulcans are logical.”

    No! Vulcan’a have (had thanks to Abrams) a global society that directs and encourage them to form an adult persona who’s decision making is based on dispassionate principles of logic as taught by the philosopher Surak, following some sort of devastating war that they feared would end them as a species if they did not change.

    But look at Obama. He’s stiff, waxy skinned, bony faced, smug, aloof, holding back furious contempt and anger, prone to spouting traditional dogmas and generalities instead of making pertinent observations, likes experimenting, mistakes his own intuition for wisdom… you know damned well he’s green blooded. He’s a vulcan without the culture or selflessness and intellectual discipline raised in lower gravity than the rest so he can’t one hand a computer monitor into a paper weight. Although now that I think about it, a vulcan ought to be a lot better at hoops given their superior reflexes and hand eye coordination. He is the kind of vulcan that a humanities program would kick out.

  106. palaeomerus says:

    “yawn”

    Yeah. Great point.

  107. palaeomerus says:

    “but MyRAs? Really? MyRAs are his fucking answer? That’s all you got you stupid useless piece of shit? MyRAs? ”

    Did you think the government was going to stay away from the wealth in retirement accounts? Really?

  108. palaeomerus says:

    The logic of the rent seeker is that if the river ever dries up, then they’ll go drink at the lake. But the logic of Margaret Thatcher is that, it only works until you run out of other people’s money.

  109. geoffb says:

    Executive ACTION!

    Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say “we are not afraid,” and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.

    He turns slowly in his chair staring right at his #1, “Make it so Mr. Podesta, make it so.”

  110. palaeomerus says:

    “He turns slowly in his chair staring right at his #1, “Make it so Mr. Podesta, make it so.”

    And hopefully people take that order into account in the 2014 elections. People might like this president a little better if he had one foot glued to the floor. It might make it harder for him to wander around with his hammer “fixing” things.

  111. palaeomerus says:

    Here’s the state of the union address in a nut shell.

    “You haven’t seen anything yet. Now I’m REALLY going to shit the bed. Enjoy the flavor!”

  112. sdferr says:

    Y’all get a sense of how that works to where responding to a troll-just-about-to-disappear when *poof*, it’s gone and the response is left free-floating at nothing? Such that, other methods, such as ignoring the critter, might be more effective?

  113. geoffb says:

    A smaller nutshell. “I AM the revolution.”

    No, this is a revolution.

  114. McGehee says:

    He’s a vulcan without the culture or selflessness and intellectual discipline

    Exactly. A Romulan.

  115. palaeomerus says:

    Romulans built an empire. and developed plasma and cloaking tech. Obama is an unRomulan. He developed regulations, payola handouts, and massive borrowing.

  116. dicentra says:

    gormless

    Now, see, this word doesn’t get anywhere near enough usage.

  117. happyfeet says:

    Romulans aren’t even real

    i know how you can tell

  118. palaeomerus says:

    Vulcans are joiners. They don’t have a star empire. And besides the whole qualifications thing, Romulans are powdery* not waxy.

    *Except in TNG and onward where they all got fore-head cysts and bowl-haircut wigs and got oily.

  119. dicentra says:

    People might like this president a little better if he had one foot glued to the floor. It might make it harder for him to wander around with his hammer “fixing” things.

    Sounds like you read Jonah today:

    asking a president to forgo a national commercial for his job and his agenda is almost unthinkable. … The speechwriters would be like professional hammerers being told that we will be skipping the annual nail-pounding ceremony this year.

    Come to think of it, the NRO crew has deftly eviscerated another one of Woodrow Wilson’s nasty little monarchical tics (h/t Insty). Kevin Williamson opens with a Jeffsentence:

    The annual State of the Union pageant is a hideous, dispiriting, ugly, monotonous, un-American, un-republican, anti-democratic, dreary, backward, monarchical, retch-inducing, depressing, shameful, crypto-imperial display of official self-aggrandizement and piteous toadying, a black Mass during which every unholy order of teacup totalitarian and cringing courtier gathers under the towering dome of a faux-Roman temple to listen to a speech with no content given by a man with no content, to rise and to be seated as is called for by the order of worship — it is a wonder they have not started genuflecting — with one wretched representative of their number squirreled away in some well-upholstered Washington hidey-hole in order to preserve the illusion that those gathered constitute a special class of humanity without whom we could not live.

    Geraghty chimes in:

    Matt Vasilogambros points out how often the opening statement must include the cliché, “the State of our Union is strong!” (It’s become a catch phrase. The audience expects it like the bar crowd shouting “NORM!” on Cheers, or Kramer exploding into a room on “Seinfeld”.)

    Me, I’m getting to where 1912 sounds like a good reset point for the country.

    For starters.

  120. palaeomerus says:

    “Sounds like you read Jonah today”

    Nope, I didn’t read him.

    I was thinking of the strange, single minded, elemental malice of the ‘Dead End Kid’ in “Easter Yeggs” and the saying that “when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail” used to describe how a sharply limited tool set leads one to develop often inappropriate one-note approaches to any task.

    http://www.trilulilu.ro/video-animatie/bugs-bunny-easter-yeggs

  121. palaeomerus says:

    Kevin Williamson really wrote a damned nice kick-off there. I’m still grinning from having read that. Good stuff. No student of Twain should offer undeserved mercy to a genuine backpfeifengesicht.

    And now I see I missed a chance to pep it up. If I had really been on my game I would have written:

    ” make it harder for him to wander around with his hammer (and implied sickle) “fixing” things.”

  122. palaeomerus says:

    “It’s the most nauseating display in American public life — and I write that as someone who has just returned from a pornographers’ convention.”

    Hah! Kevin Williamson is on…how you say?…On ze fire!

  123. palaeomerus says:

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/andrea-mitchell-iran-was-more-or-less-an-american-ally-before-bushs-axis-of-evil-remark/

    Shorter Andrea Mitchell: “Ww..what’a heck is a ‘sha’ ? Pfffbbht. Never heard (Hic!) of it. It doesn’t even (Hic!) sound Iraaanian. Anyway everybody knows’ut you (Hic!) tea baggers are sshtupid. Y’oughta should read more. (Hic!)”

  124. BigBangHunter says:

    – News in the war on global climate change warming thingy:

    – Rebelious yut fucks with the wrong meterologist.

    – Climate change you can believe in.

  125. Darleen says:

    BBH

    That was epic …

  126. StrangernFiction says:

    Progressive Republican congressman threatens to throw reporter off balcony.

    FIFT

  127. palaeomerus says:

    Grimm is an ex marine. Personally, I think anyone in congress, of any party, who demands “respect” right now especially from the press has their head up their ass. Threats on top of that imply early onset idiocy. And thanks to the AKIN protocol I now know how to deal with “embarrassing” republican idiots like Grimm ( and Christie). So, let the mulching begin.

  128. palaeomerus says:

    http://www.jammiewf.com/2014/cnn-poll-with-78-democrats-or-independents-gives-obama-speech-44-approval/

    Even the preferred demo didn’t seem to like the SoTU that much. And they over sampled the democrats to much that it’s even more tragic that it turned out how it did.

  129. palaeomerus says:

    Pennsylvania Man accuses Florida Man of being a weaksauce little poser and declres that he is the REAL DEAL FREAKSHOW around here. Anything Florida Man can do Pennsylvania man can do better and noisier. Sure Florida is more prolific, but prolific at what? Being lame? Quality will beat quantity every time and Pennsylvania man is not afraid to do whatever is required to prove that.

    http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/01/28/Video-Man-Crashes-Car-Into-Fried-Chicken-Restaurant-Strips-Naked-Masturbates-in-Intersection

  130. geoffb says:

    I don’t think Grimm is a progressive. He seems to be caught up in a push by both the Obama administration and the establishment Republicans to squash any and all [R] who were elected to the House as freshmen in 2010 and their supporters using the BAMN method especially the campaign finance laws. I also see more of the ex-FBI agent coming to the fore in that exchange than the Marine.

  131. Slartibartfast says:

    black Mass

    I call racist.

  132. John Bradley says:

    black Mass

    I think they call it ‘Kwanzaa’.

  133. RI Red says:

    Can we go back to the part about lady bits? There was going to be a waxing contest?
    I am available to judge, by the way.

  134. palaeomerus says:

    More serious:

    http://bearingarms.com/abramski-case-before-the-supreme-court-could-end-tyrannical-drive-for-universal-background-checks/

    Apparently, if this article is to be believed, the ATF has created “straw purchasing” as a crime out of thin air, and arrested people for it, without there ever actually having been a law against it to enforce.

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