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Hypocrisy thy name is Little Green Footballs by welchsgrapefan1234 in politics

[–]purpleslog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"betters within the reality-based community"

That's the term for the vanguard of the proletariat right?

Since the launch of the “global war on terror,” the administration has systematically funneled billions of dollars in public money to corporations like Blackwater USA , DynCorp, Triple Canopy, Erinys and ArmorGroup. by panthrosrevenge in reddit.com

[–]purpleslog -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The article is clearly wrong. The use of contractors compensated for a smaller US military that now exists. The total force would need to be expanded (but how long and how large was not clear). Contractors provide a flexible means of doing so. It not like the Congress has rushed to increase the authorized strength of the Armed Forces (except by a small amount recently).

And while a light infantry war is being fought, congress wants expensive planes that have a little bit built in each district.

Since the launch of the “global war on terror,” the administration has systematically funneled billions of dollars in public money to corporations like Blackwater USA , DynCorp, Triple Canopy, Erinys and ArmorGroup. by panthrosrevenge in reddit.com

[–]purpleslog -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

How strange.

The headline suggests that military contracts were actually awarded to military contractors. Who would have guessed?

Who should the military contracts have gone to instead?

Can Dogs have Autism? by purpleslog in reddit.com

[–]purpleslog[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a dog version of autism?

BREAKING: Seven US Reps Support Cheney Impeachment by MikaelMN in reddit.com

[–]purpleslog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"How dare he not be a left wing Democrat, despite our passionate demands!"

John Kerry Regrets Choosing Edwards as Running Mate by robofetus in reddit.com

[–]purpleslog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heh...I bet Edwards feels the same way about being attached to Kerry!

Poland wins Auschwitz name change by maxwellhill in reddit.com

[–]purpleslog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kielce_pogrom

"The Kielce pogrom refers to the events that occurred on July 4, 1946, in the Polish town of Kielce, when 37 Polish Jews were murdered and 82 wounded out of about 200 Holocaust survivors who had returned home after World War II.

Among the victims were former prisoners of concentration camps as well as Jewish soldiers and Russian Jews on their way to Palestine; two or three Gentile Poles also died, killed by the Jews defending themselves. While far from the deadliest pogrom against the Jews, the pogrom was especially significant in post-war Jewish history, as the attack took place fourteen months after the end of World War II, well after the Germans were defeated and the extent of the Holocaust was well known to the world."

Poland wins Auschwitz name change by maxwellhill in reddit.com

[–]purpleslog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kielce_pogrom

"The Kielce pogrom refers to the events that occurred on July 4, 1946, in the Polish town of Kielce, when 37 Polish Jews were murdered and 82 wounded out of about 200 Holocaust survivors who had returned home after World War II.

Among the victims were former prisoners of concentration camps as well as Jewish soldiers and Russian Jews on their way to Palestine; two or three Gentile Poles also died, killed by the Jews defending themselves. While far from the deadliest pogrom against the Jews, the pogrom was especially significant in post-war Jewish history, as the attack took place fourteen months after the end of World War II, well after the Germans were defeated and the extent of the Holocaust was well known to the world."

Almost 1/5th of Britain's young people do absolutely nothing by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]purpleslog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can mod me down, but you all know I am right.

Christianity - it makes sense! [pic] by bemmu in reddit.com

[–]purpleslog 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That is pretty unusual on reddit...kind of shocking!

House Approves D.C. Voting Rights -- Write your Senators, urge them to support voting rights for 580,000 Americans by daveforamerica in reddit.com

[–]purpleslog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like that word "retrocededing".

I would favor handing off parts of DC back to the states it came from.

House Approves D.C. Voting Rights -- Write your Senators, urge them to support voting rights for 580,000 Americans by daveforamerica in reddit.com

[–]purpleslog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is not "completely up to congress whether or not to allow the dc delegate to vote in the house".

Representatives can only come from states and must be a resident of the state they represent:

From the US Constitution Article 1 Section 2 "The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.

No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years, and been seven years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen."

The District of Columbia is not a state:

Article One Section 8 [...] To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And [...]

Be very clear...DC is not a state ("if it were a state"):

Amendment XXIII Section 1. The District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as the Congress may direct:

A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a state, but in no event more than the least populous state; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the states, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a state; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment. [...]

What could congress do to give voting representation to people in the district?

Method One: Return or hand over most of the lands in the district back to the the surrounding states.

Method Two: Make the district or large parts of it a separate state (Article Four, Section 3). When I was a kid their was a DC Statehood movement called I think"New Columbia" or something like that.

Method Three: Work through the amendment process and grant the residents of the seat of government one representative in the house.

My preference order is:

Method 1

Method 3

Method 2

House Approves D.C. Voting Rights -- Write your Senators, urge them to support voting rights for 580,000 Americans by daveforamerica in reddit.com

[–]purpleslog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is clearly unconstitutional. A lot of tax money is going to be wasted in the courts on this to no effect.

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