TenuredVulture wrote:How long before PETA jumps on the dog eating thing, arguing there's no difference between eating dog and eating pig? (Except that pigs are more delicious.)

thephan wrote:You know you were thinking this...

jerseyhoya wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:How long before PETA jumps on the dog eating thing, arguing there's no difference between eating dog and eating pig? (Except that pigs are more delicious.)

PETA hit the person who fed Obama 'Bo's cousin', and also said we shouldn't eat Bo's cousin or Babe's cousin.

Werthless wrote:But it's not necessarily discrimination requiring legislation, if there are other variables that explain differences. I am tired of reading the oft quoted "women make 65 cents on the dollar" when it is not controlled for anything. Unless we are attributing differences to discrimination, the law has no effect. And its not anti-women if women are earning more money at the entry level type jobs for which this law applies. That's what makes my stat about earnings in 20s relevant.

Three months ago, in his State of the Union speech, President Obama announced a new task force to investigate mortgage fraud and bring some measure of relief to the 12 million American families who are either losing their homes or in danger of losing them.

The new Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group would be co-chaired by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, U.S. Attorney John Walsh of Colorado and three Washington insiders from the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

On March 9 — 45 days after the speech and 30 days after the announcement — we met with Schneiderman in New York City and asked him for an update. He had just returned from Washington, where he had been personally looking for office space. As of that date, he had no office, no phones, no staff and no executive director. None of the 55 staff members promised by Holder had materialized. On April 2, we bumped into Schneiderman on a train leaving Washington for New York and learned that the situation was the same.

Tuesday, calls to the Justice Department’s switchboard requesting to be connected with the working group produced the answer, “I really don’t know where to send you.” After being transferred to the attorney general’s office and asking for a phone number for the working group, the answer was, “I’m not aware of one.”

The promises of the President have led to little or no concrete action.

In fact, the new Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities Working Group was the sixth such entity formed since the start of the financial crisis in 2009. The grand total of staff working for all of the previous five groups was one, according to a surprised Schneiderman. In Washington, where staffs grow like cherry blossoms, this is a remarkable occurrence.

While discussing swing states, Schweitzer said Romney would have a “tall order to position Hispanics to vote for him,” and I replied that was mildly ironic since Mitt’s father was born in Mexico, giving the clan a nominal claim to being Hispanic. Schweitzer replied that it is “kinda ironic given that his family came from a polygamy commune in Mexico, but then he’d have to talk about his family coming from a polygamy commune in Mexico, given the gender discrepancy.” Women, he said, are “not great fans of polygamy, 86 percent were not great fans of polygamy. I am not alleging by any stretch that Romney is a polygamist and approves of [the] polygamy lifestyle, but his father was born into [a] polygamy commune in Mexico.”

Romney’s father, George—who served as governor of Michigan and was a member of the Nixon cabinet and also a presidential candidate—was born in Mexico in 1907 to a family of American Mormons who fled to Mexico when the United States government cracked down on the practice of polygamy. George Romney’s parents were in a monogamous marriage, but Mexico was the last bastion for the practice of plural marriage in the Church of Latter Day Saints. (The church has since expressly prohibited the practice.)

While the Obama campaign has ruled Romney’s faith off-limits, it was the subject of some attacks from evangelicals during the GOP primary.

jerseyhoya wrote:You realize that that is Obama's history. His father was married to another woman at the time he married Obama's mother. His dad's dad had at least four wives.

Attacking Romney for his ties to polygamy when Obama's father was a polygamist. Attacking Romney for cruelty to dogs while Obama ate dogs. Obama Biden 2012 - Anything Your Guy Did, Our Guy Did Worse!

jerseyhoya wrote:You realize that that is Obama's history. His father was married to another woman at the time he married Obama's mother. His dad's dad had at least four wives.

Attacking Romney for his ties to polygamy when Obama's father was a polygamist. Attacking Romney for cruelty to dogs while Obama ate dogs. Obama Biden 2012 - Anything Your Guy Did, Our Guy Did Worse!

lethal wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:You realize that that is Obama's history. His father was married to another woman at the time he married Obama's mother. His dad's dad had at least four wives.

Attacking Romney for his ties to polygamy when Obama's father was a polygamist. Attacking Romney for cruelty to dogs while Obama ate dogs. Obama Biden 2012 - Anything Your Guy Did, Our Guy Did Worse!

Why is eating dogs in Indonesia wrong? You're just a racist.

jerseyhoya wrote:You realize that that is Obama's history. His father was married to another woman at the time he married Obama's mother. His dad's dad had at least four wives.

Attacking Romney for his ties to polygamy when Obama's father was a polygamist. Attacking Romney for cruelty to dogs while Obama ate dogs. Obama Biden 2012 - Anything Your Guy Did, Our Guy Did Worse!

lethal wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:You realize that that is Obama's history. His father was married to another woman at the time he married Obama's mother. His dad's dad had at least four wives.

Attacking Romney for his ties to polygamy when Obama's father was a polygamist. Attacking Romney for cruelty to dogs while Obama ate dogs. Obama Biden 2012 - Anything Your Guy Did, Our Guy Did Worse!

Why is eating dogs in Indonesia wrong? You're just a racist.

theracist wrote:

lethal wrote:

theracist wrote:You realize that that is Obama's history. His father was married to another woman at the time he married Obama's mother. His dad's dad had at least four wives.

Attacking Romney for his ties to polygamy when Obama's father was a polygamist. Attacking Romney for cruelty to dogs while Obama ate dogs. Obama Biden 2012 - Anything Your Guy Did, Our Guy Did Worse!

Why is eating dogs in Indonesia wrong? You're just a racist.

I'm certainly racist against people who think their side's dumb story is important and telling but the other side's dumb story is irrelevant or mean spirited.