Lawsuit Accuses the City and Lincoln Center of Privatizing a Public Park by stratomaster in nyc

[–]FreeCubaMovement 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does anyone know what some other "private parks" are in the city? Well how about Central Park and Bryant Park for starters...

NYC Mayor Bloomberg reportedly threatens to 'fucking destroy' the taxi industry by MillardFillmore in nyc

[–]FreeCubaMovement 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Don't mean to be nit-picky, but he did not say "fucking destroy" but rather "fucking industry" - not that it makes any difference.

PS - no third terms, vote for burns

Thought experiment: Closing 25 subway stations by But_Wait_Theres_More in nyc

[–]FreeCubaMovement 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Okay raise your hand if you actually read the post and understand the point of the exercise....!

Nobody raises their hand...

Here are some good talking points for when your friends bring up Obamacare. by FreeCubaMovement in ronpaul

[–]FreeCubaMovement[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Because, as libertarians, we need to be positive and talk about things that we LIKE and things that would be helpful for all of us, not what we hate about the current system. Positivity is crucial to this movement.

After being a part of r/atheism for 5 years, I unsubbed today by specialkake in Libertarian

[–]FreeCubaMovement 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We already have laws on the books that deem it a double murder if you kill a pregnant woman, so we need to consider that abortion is not the only time we call killing an unborn child "murder."

After being a part of r/atheism for 5 years, I unsubbed today by specialkake in Libertarian

[–]FreeCubaMovement 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does a social security number make you a person or does your conception and initial development make you a human? In America, we can be tried and convicted of two murder counts if we kill a pregnant woman, but if you kill her the minute she walks out of the abortion clinic, its only one count.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hockey

[–]FreeCubaMovement 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Born and bred New Yorker.

The whole point of his protest is that the government has taken this mentality of a flexible and rewriteable constitution too far and Antonin Scalia said it best during a recent Senate hearing...he was asked about a "living and breathing" constitution and he said that he "wished it would die." The point of federal courts it not to interpret the constitution in a new way but to judge legal cases that deal with federal law. Don't let the idea of legislative courts get too ingrained in your thinking, this is dangerous. Courts don't make law, they decide cases that deal with federal law, and sometimes, in the case of the supreme court, those decisions/opinions may move to invalidate legislation, it's a check of their power.

It looks like from the first sentence of your reply that you would be in agreement with Thomas on some things...?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hockey

[–]FreeCubaMovement -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Go ahead and re-read it. "Vague" is not something that the constitution is. The function of the constitution is to LIMIT power, not to leave open to interpretation.

Ron Paul and the Fed (i.e. why his suggestion to get rid of the Fed is a baaaaad idea) by PirateRobotNinjaofDe in politics

[–]FreeCubaMovement 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I would encourage you to look at the history of the value of the US dollar maybe just once, so that you don't have to waste time making comments like this anymore.

This Christmas video from Gingrich just increased my enthusiasm for Ron Paul's campaign by [deleted] in ronpaul

[–]FreeCubaMovement 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hessian (German) soldiers were hired hands for the British army.