Charlie Fuqua, the Republican candidate for the Arkansas House of Representatives who called for expelling Muslims from the United States in his book, also wrote in support for instituting the death penalty for "rebellious children."

In "God's Law," Fuqua's 2012 book, the candidate wrote that while parents love their children, a process could be set up to allow for the death penalty to be instituted for "rebellious children,

Fuqua, who is anti-abortion, points out that the course of action involved in sentencing a child to death is described in the Bible and would involve judicial approval. While it is unlikely that many parents would seek to have their children killed by the government, Fuqua wrote, such power would serve as a way to stop rebellious children.

dajafi wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:Just out of curiosity, JH, how can you support someone who so clearly lied his ass off this last debate? How do you know what his policies really are and whether or not you support them? And certainly, how can you trust him? The fact that he lied his ass off while changing many/most of his major positions would make me really not want to vote for the guy. I know I wouldn't vote for a dem that was so transparently full of crap. I'd stay home.

jh is more than capable of speaking for himself, but since I think this gets to a larger interesting question about why we discuss politics here, why we sometimes hate it, and why we often can't help it, I'm going to share two thoughts.

1) This is a pointless question that's only going to upset you. Plus you know the answer. (Hint: why are you a Phillies fan?)

2) In that last-week Romney sounded clearly saner than the Tea Party hostage in evidence for the last two years, and jh is in the more realistic half--hell, probably tenth, maybe hundredth--of the Republican Party, he'd presumably be thrilled if Romney really did govern as that guy. Plus, to anticipate jh, it's not like Romney went in as Bachmann and came out as Kucinich. More like he went in as Dubya and then showed up as a less tongue-tied 41.

To be clear, I myself don't think he would govern as a pragmatist, because to the modern deranged right pragmatism is apostasy. I've read a lot about Romney the last month or so in particular (and I guess the last six years or so in general--I would particularly recommend Nick Lemann's long New Yorker profile and the Benjamin Wallace-Wells piece in New York magazine about Romney's experiences as Mormon stake president in Boston), and the thru-line is the guy's utter willingness to say and do what he must to win. As we saw last week, he's really good at this... which I have to admit isn't a bad trait in a leader.

I think if he has a default setting with respect to policy, it's probably more like the guy from the debate and his MA governorship. But he won't fight within his own crazy-ass party to be that guy. And they're so desperate for victory that they won't kick at his pretending to be that guy in order to win.

jerseyhoya wrote:Really? Shrill?

CalvinBall wrote:oh come on. the ad is pretty funny.

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td11 wrote:

Sesame Workshop is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization and we do not endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns. We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken down.

fuck it, cut their funding

According to the New York Times, in 2004 Disney signed a $75 million deal with Jim Henson Co. that gave Disney a three-year period to develop movies and television shows with four years of consulting assistance from Jim Henson Co. on strategic advice for reproduction. This was not the beginning of Disney and the Muppets' relationship, though. In 1990, when Henson died from a bacteria infection and his five children took over the company, they had to first get through a court battle with Disney concerning the terms of a Muppet attraction completed for Walt Disney.

Once they set out to develop the future Muppet adventures, they ran into problems, beginning with the release of "Muppets from Space" in 1999 being a complete flop in the box office. The next year, they sold the family business to the German media company EM.TV & Merchandising for about $680 million, but according to the New York Times, "as the German conglomerate slumped under crushing debt, insider-trading and fraud investigation, the Muppets stagnated further." Jim Henson Co. then bought back the characters for $78 million, only sell them once again in this new deal with Disney.

cshort wrote:non-profit

jerseyhoya wrote:

td11 wrote:also, gallup 7-day tracking already has it back to 50-45 obama

They still haven't switched to a likely voter screen

Harry Enten ‏@ForecasterEnten
For all the 2012/2004 comparisons, John Kerry never led in October...

td11 wrote:does pbs get all that money? (honest q)

jerseyhoya wrote:

Harry Enten ‏@ForecasterEnten
For all the 2012/2004 comparisons, John Kerry never led in October...

jerseyhoya wrote:Bush had a 53% approval rating among voters on Election Day 2004

Gallup wrote:Obama Approval

53%

Obama Disapproval

42%

jerseyhoya wrote:Among voters is a key bit you're missing still