I also got it set up as an actual bumper sticker here: http://www.zazzle.com/democrats_utopia_bumper_sticker-128473672951443757?gl=oceander
bumper sticker
Posted on 05/15/2010 4:10:07 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Great banner,...we need to see more of it ...across multiple threads.
Thanks for the ping.
Anything that supports the propaganda effort called climate Research ...aka ...the Global Warming Hoax...needs to be stripped out of the bill.
Ditto and Thanx !
I’m no expert but I think this is the way it went and it suggests that our minority could use similar tactics for lots of legislation:
With a bill out of committee and introduced to the floor for a vote any member can propose an amendment, in this case, a motion to recommit to the committee with mandatory instructions to include the “no pay for porn” provision.
If the dims didn’t want for the bill to go back through the committee process they would have had to vote against the motion which of course included the pay for porn provision.
This would have allowed any opponent to point out the dim’s vote against an amendment designed to implement a “no pay for porn” law ... ;-)
Since the bill now goes back to committee it may be it simply dies because no one wants to try again or it may be subjected to significant changes to get out of committee again.
With some big bills there are votes on the rules that limit amendments and so this may not be a tactic that can be used regularly ... anyone else have some input?
Thanks. Considering the insane deals and payoffs that were made on the health care bill, it seems like this tactic could be helpful.
I would dearly love to see an accounting on how many tax payer dollars are paid to Gov't bureaucrats to study THE MYTH.
GOTTA BE IN THE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS.
If the same bill comes out of committee and passes with the “no pay for porn” the pubbies will need more recommit motions - here’s some candidates:
No sex with interns amendment
No drinking alcohol on the floor of the house amendment
No prostitutes in congressional offices amendment
No bestiality on federal grounds amendment ...
Just a start ... ;-)
Now THAT's a CAPITAL IDEA!!!
Now THAT's a CAPITAL IDEA!!!
Why can’t the private sector fund scientific research and math? If they find something then can patent or copyright it and make some cash.
As for “science education,” well, we’ve seen how well Federally funded eduction works, right?
You believe the only things worth discovering are those that can be monetized?
I believe that, sooner or later, everything you discover has monetary value...
Even if that is true, shareholders tend to demand a more specific timeframe than “sooner or later.”
And I would disagree. I would suggest that the vast majority of discoveries—from the discovery of novel fundamental particles to the characterization of distant star systems—will not lead to a profitable application within 100 years (if ever).
And I challenge you to demonstrate that Faraday’s discoveries were funded through private enterprise, and not through the state :).
My point isn’t that these discoveries definitely will not lead to profitable applications, its just that right now we can’t specifically foresee any.
Currently, private biotech companies “stand on the shoulders” of discoveries funded by the taxpayer. However, I see no indication that removing that private funding will have it replaced by private funding. I think it more likely that basic/pure research will simply slow down dramatically, and along with it the training of new scientists.
His major discoveries were already made by the time he was made director of the laboratories at the Royal Society, which, no doubt was a better paid and more prestigious position.
As a scientist I am all for funding of science and research, for several reasons. Promoting the Arts and Sciences is one of the FEW enumerated powers of Congress.
While direct funding is not the mentioned mechanism for this promotion of the Arts and Sciences, presently the government taxes take so much ‘air out of the room’, that I support them resupplying science with a decent amount of ‘oxygen’.
Bob Wilson said of Particle Accelerators in specific but of scientific funding and education and projects in general (like going to the Moon), that they had not only to do with national defense (like the Atomic Bomb)....
“It has only to do with the respect with which we regard one another, the dignity of men, our love of culture. It has to do with: Are we good painters, good sculptors, great poets? I mean all the things we really venerate in our country and are patriotic about. It has nothing to do directly with defending our country except to make it worth defending.” Robert R. “Bob” Wilson, Physicist
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