[Signal boosts are awesome.
...zomg, Yahoo! is axing, er, selling Delicious.com!
...And over here on the calm planet, I am looking into my options.
--L.]
- Georgia GOPer Pushes Bill For Taxes To Be Paid In Gold And Silver | TPMDC
- This idea is a long way from becoming law — it would have to pass the state House, among other things, before heading to the governor for a signature.
But the idea of using gold as currency is not new — recently Fox News' Stuart Varney and Andrew Napolitano debated whether the country should return to the gold standard. Gold vending machines are already operating in Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Arab Emirates — and one recently opened in a Florida mall.
- The Senate’s Long, Twisted, Bumpy Road To Filibuster Reform | TPMDC
- …the actual sequence of events that starts with [Senator Udall] giving a speech, and ends with filibuster reform, is obscure, fragile, and extremely complicated. In fact, it's so involved that the "first day" of the 112th Senate could actually last for weeks.
[Article describes process. It's fascinating, if you like that sort of thing. One is reminded of the game Nomic. Wikipedia says Nomic "demonstrates that in any such system where rule-changes are possible, a situation may arise in which the resulting laws are contradictory or insufficient to determine what is in fact legal."
-L]
…If you want to read an even more technical explanation of these steps, check out the below [blockquote]… outlining this scenario in Senate-ese.
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- Free joints for food donations – UPI.com
- The owners of a California medical marijuana dispensary said they collected 11,000 pounds of food for charity by giving out free marijuana cigarettes.
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[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
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