Alternate Transportation Act

1. The Committee on Alternative Transportation (CAT) shall be formed within the Senate, consisting of three Senators nominated and appointed by vote of that body. The Committee shall study and consider alternative methods of transportation and their implementation. The CAT shall prepare and present recommendations on how best to overhaul the nation's transportation infrastructure and re-allocate the nation's annual investment in transportation infrastructure, with an emphasis on producing safer, cleaner, and more efficient results.

2. The CAT should recommend specific projects as well as general allocations of funds.

3. The Senate may dissolve or re-form the CAT at any time by a majority vote of all Senators.

Transportation Efficiency and Fairness Act

1. No more than 40% of the nation's annual investment in transportation infrastructure shall be allotted to road construction. Total spending on road construction shall be capped at its current level.

2. Atlasians who have not owned or leased an automobile for a period of at least one year shall receive an annual tax credit scaled to the cost of road construction for that year. The tax credit shall be equal to 0.000025% of the total road construction budget. Atlasians who own or lease no more than one car but can be verified by a certified automotive inspector as having driven less than 1500 miles on it over a yearlong period shall also be eligible for this tax credit.

3. Atlasians who own or lease no more than one automobile, driven more than 1500 miles annually but less than 5000, as verified by a certified automotive inspector, shall receive a tax credit equivalent to 0.0000125% of the total road construction budget.

Aye

Outside the US.

I could settle for Red.

Both primary colours are free, lets take one of them.

Doesn't the POP technically have some shade of Blue?

Depends on if you ask Libertas or Antonio OH SNAP lol.

Yeah, why don't you let me choose your party's color, since Antonio was allowed to choose ours?

Christine O'Donnell: Hillary Clinton for President in 2012

On ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday, Christine O'Donnell threw her support to an unexpected - and seemingly uninterested - potential 2012 presidential candidate: Hillary Clinton.

"I hope she runs for President," O'Donnell told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, adding that she would even consider becoming a Democrat in order to have the opportunity to vote for her.

"I would love to see her take out Obama in the primary," O'Donnell said. "You know, I would even be tempted to change my registration so that I could vote for her in the Democratic primary."

The former Delaware Senate candidate emphasized that her hopes for a Clinton 2012 candidacy were derived not from the belief that the secretary of state would be easier for Republicans to beat than President Obama, but because she would make the better candidate.

It was Jimmy Carter who pardoned the draft dodgers.

Jimmy Carter was the guy who brought back selective service registration after it had been indefinitely suspended, over the opposition of people like Senator Mark Hatfield.

Endorsed for what is probably my highest UDL preference.

It certainly does make sense. Those who actually have a stake in a community should be the ones deciding what happens there.

Surprise, surprise.

I encourage you to read patrick1 and PiT's posts in this thread to see the flaw in that line of thinking.

Slumlords are not representative of true property owners and shouldn't exist in the first place.

I don't see how the fact that lots of people got screwed by the banksters' controlled demolition of the economy and lost their homes is proof that these people didn't care about their communities.

No. He is something far far worse.

As long as the TSA worker is hot, I'm okay with them.

Is this hot?

Deep behind enemy lines in Seattle? Hope everyone is enjoying the vegan burritos and soy lattes in bgwah country.

X Libertas

It certainly does make sense. Those who actually have a stake in a community should be the ones deciding what happens there.

Of course it couldn't be implemented under the current state of affairs, with so many deprived of their right to property and absentee ownership being rampant.

slovenčina Slovak Eliminated Round 1
latviešu valoda Latvian Eliminated Round 2
polski Polish Eliminated Round 3
slovenščina Slovenian Eliminated Round 4
български Bulgarian Eliminated Round 5
lietuvių kalba Lithuanian Eliminated Round 6
română Romanian Eliminated Round 7
čeština Czech Eliminated Round 8
eesti keel Estonian Eliminated Round 9
Gaeilge Irish Eliminated Round 10
ελληνικά Greek Eliminated Round 11
svenska Swedish Eliminated Round 12
français French Eliminated round 13
español Spanish Eliminated round 14
italiano Italian Eliminated round 15
português Portuguese Eliminated round 16
Malti Maltese Eliminated round 17
Nederlands Dutch Eliminated round 18
dansk Danish Eliminated round 19

Deutsch German [34] -1
English English [22]
magyar Hungarian [23]
suomi Finnish [34] +1

Nice troll thread with ridiculous biased poll.

Libertas, I respectfuly disagree with you.  A prosecutor can only ethically do their job when they believe that the defendant has done a crime AND that they can prove it.  Blue did not believe in either of those conditions.  Thus he did the right thing.  He offered to appoint a special prosecutor, also the right thing.  This has happened a few times, even in front of the Supreme Court.

My favorite example of this is the case of the Hillside Strangler(s).  The DA of LA brought charges.  After some time, the DA believed that he could no longer prove the case and moved to dismiss.  The Judge disagreed and refused to dismiss (within the right of the judge -- at least in Wisconsin and obviously California).  The DA, not believing that the case could be ethically prosecuted, brought in the California AG, who felt differently, actually did some real good work, and successfully prosecuted the case.

Interesting side note -- the DA who started the case was elected AG, so when the case ended it was back in his office.  More interesting, the Judge became DA.

The point of all this is a special prosecutor could have brought in.  Blue gave you the option of naming one.  Dallasfan, Han, would have been great to name just two I am sure you would have liked.  I am sure there would have been others that would have been willing to take a look at the evidence and then determine if they could proceed based on those two conditions.

This is the only way the Justice system works.  You may not like it in this case, but trust me, it is much better than having prosecutors that blindly prosecute people they do not believe committed crimes.

That was not the main issue here, despite Marokai's attempt to distract attention with it.

The real issue is that the attorney general, the judge, and the defendant were all in bed together.

You actually post on other forums? Amazing. So why post here? I mean, you hate us and we hate you. Basically. I mean, there are other, better, forums out there, not run by evil racist Zionist bigot nazimonsters. I hear that they are even considerate when giving out infraction points, as you so rightly pointed out a couple of months ago.

No, I am committed to casting the light of truth upon the darkness of ignorance is all too common on this forum.

That racism has become the official policy of Atlas Forum is quite disturbing, but that only makes it all the more important that people are around to fight such a tendency.

We held another vote on banning you recently. Well... recommending banning you. Margin is kind of lopsided. Thought you ought to know.

Well hey, governments want Julian Assange dead; moderators want me banned.

Daring to expose the corruption, the nastiness, and the ineptitude of the "authorities" is always a risky proposition.

But I won't back down in the face of intimidation. I am a rule-abiding poster; it is unfortunate that the mods here cannot play by the rules.

Another poster recently compared the moderating team on this forum to the way 'justice' was administered in the old Deep South, and that seems a rather apt description. Forget the rule of law, if you look at a deputy the wrong way, your ass is lynched.

Dave wrote the rules and created a system for their enforcement. Even with all the questionable infractions I've received, my record is still hardly exceptional given how over-reported my posts are. If I were such a chronic rule-breaker I would have been banned already. But my real problem is that I have been willing to openly criticize the unfair actions of the mods. That is why the mods are constantly plotting to get me banned.

There aren't many forums on which a topic with the title 'Zionist regime behind terror attacks in Iran' and featuring an article from IRNA would have not been deleted or at least locked

Well if we're talking about forums run by racist bigot moderators, you have a point.

I've used IRNA and other sources on many forums and never was a mod squad so brazen in its bigotry as to delete and lock threads for using a news source run by people of the wrong race and religion.

Mind you, on most forums Libertas would have been give the old heave-ho ages ago.

We've been over this already.

On other forums, bigots who tell people to "die in a fire" get banned, not made into moderators.

Doesn't everybody put mustard on their burgers?

Normal people don't.

Tuck a friend of yours, Justin?

I will point out a significant problem in this bill.


The first clause dismantles the TSA, and the second clause subjects the TSA to local, state federal molestation laws etc. How can the same bill regulate an agency and dismantle it?

Read it over again. It does not regulate the TSA.

option 1, but the tide is quickly turning toward option 2

Um... what?

There is no evidence of a decline in the pro-choice position, gay marriage? yes, choice? no.

Um yeah, there kinda is.

More Americans “Pro-Life” Than “Pro-Choice” for First Time; Also, fewer think abortion should be legal “under any circumstances”

Generational Differences on Abortion Narrow; Support for making abortion broadly illegal growing fastest among young adults




It is inevitable that abortion will eventually go the way of slavery and other crimes against humanity.

[there is a chunk of the tea-party movement that doesn't really care about America's national security.]

It can't be both.

I've been interested seeing the wide variety of opinions expressed by the far-right on this subject.

While I don't think Assange should be summarily executed, I do hope that this situation educates many of my fellow Republicans that there is a chunk of the tea-party movement that doesn't really care about America's national security.

Here's to hoping that segment grows and pushes the neocon infiltrators out of the tea party once and for all.

Libby, try this next time.

Why, that would defeat the point; this is intended to be a public service announcement for everyone.

As Spade alluded to, everyone knows browns (especially Muslims) can't seriously run a news organization, so if you post their articles, it's "trolling".

About the same percentage of the vote, but turnout would be down.

Why haven't you been gassed, errr..., banned yet?

If its now against the rules to provide news from a perspective other than that of the Western mainstream media, an announcement should at least have been made.

The bigotry of the forum moderators grows increasingly disturbing.