Blow-me.com or blow-me.net somehow seem like they would be less of a problem than blow-me.org.
I think I read elsewhere that he also owns the .net version.
2: But it's nonprofit!
That guy is pretty unbelievable. Here's a story of a VA state legislator who just entered an Alford plea to sleeping with the 17-year old receptionist at his law firm but plans to use his work-release to continue legislating. Related because they're both icky.
Looks like someone may be holding blow.me looking for a high bidder. There's a message in Croatian saying it's a premium domain.
Looks like someone may be holding blow.me looking for a high bidder. There's a message in Croatian saying it's a premium domain.
Looks like someone may be holding blow.me looking for a high bidder. There's a message in Croatian saying it's a premium domain.
4.1: The mission statement must be a treat.
Can right wing cartoon character drunks be all bad if they actually look like cartoon character drunks? See Ford, Rob.
I just feel like big fat party animals get a pass, and this guy is a big fat party animal. WHOOOOOOO.
12: Does George W. Bush count? If not, is he disqualified from Big Fat Party Animal status because he's not fat, or because he quit partying?
I'm just saying that for me personally, Rob Ford has done far more than any previous mayor of Toronto.
Damnit, Eggplant, we told you it could work!
I mean, admittedly you probably didn't have much chance with either of them, which could be some consolation.
It is, thanks. The one interaction I had with some girls was them telling me to raise my hands with the rest of the crowd, and me complying, sheepishly saying, "It makes me feel self conscous.".
20: If there's been a movie where a manic pixie black activist girl meets a shy, uptight white guy and teaches him to loosen up and trade on his privilege so they can sexily smash the system, I sure haven't seen it but it seems like an obvious next step.
Bullworth. I don't want to be played by Warren Beatty, but if it gets me Halle Berry...
Just don't fuck with her daughter's hair or she'll have you in front of a judge.
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US apparently discussing normalizing relations with Cuba. Isn't there a ton of legislation establishing the embargo, etc, or is that all stuff the executive has leeway to get around?
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26: I skimmed the Cuban Democracy Act (1992) and the Helms-Burton Act (1996), which seem to be the two that specifically deal with Cuba, and there seem to be a lot of provisions allowing the President to waive the measures when a transitional government is in place - although the CDA requires the President to make a declaration that they are having free elections, respecting human rights, and moving toward a free market economy. Other relevant laws, like the Trading with the Enemy Act, also provide executive discretion. Alternatively, perhaps legislation could be achieved by treaty, bypassing the House.
Also amusing that they tried to give the 1996 law the short designation the "LIBERTAD Act", but it ended up being called Helms-Burton, perhaps because of silliness.
26, 27: Yeah, from what I understand, some of the legislative foundations for the embargo are generic laws which apply to countries designated by the President, so that's easy enough to deal with by fiat, and other Cuba-specific laws allow for Presidential waivers under certain conditions. Plus of course much of it is enforced by Treasury, which presumably has enforcement discretion, so maybe an opportunity to deal with it like the recent immigration stuff?* (Or maybe not, I guess private parties wouldn't risk liability under the Cruz administration by relying on Obama's enforcement forbearance.)
*Speaking of which, could one the Pittsburgh contingent stop by the federal courthouse and smack this schmuck upside the head? Thanks.
I'm convinced that the Castro government will fall apart if Cubans are given access to the US in significant numbers. Having an enemy is part of what props up the government. Take away the prop and it will fall over, I think.
I think a diplomatic trip to Cuba by a delegation of Congressional big fat party animals is in order. I see some maracas, rum, and hats made of fruit doing the trick.
31: And cigars. Don't forget the cigars.
Yeah, the NYT says "Although the decades-old American embargo on Cuba will remain in place for now, the administration signaled that it would welcome a move by Congress to ease or lift it should lawmakers choose to."
So given what Congress is like, that makes it sounds like they're just taking the first steps toward eventual embargo-lifting.
At last, the first step in my longtime dream of putting a major league baseball team in Havana.
I'm sure Fidel would agree with you.
Sadly, the paragraph in 33 seems to have been dropped from the current version of the NYT story.
It's going to be fucking amazing watching all these Republican Fox news types ranting about Obama enabling Cuba's human rights abuse when they've spent the last two weeks justifying torture and rape. But I guess that's different because Muslims aren't people.
"He's been imprisoning people for years without trial and torturing them in secret prisons on Cuba, and, dammit, that's our job."
39 made me chuckle and then feel guilty for chuckling. Like the picture of a GI Joe doll water boarding the Elf on the Shelf using the kitchen sink, as I just saw on Facebook.
The biggest piece of the embargo that only Congress can lift is, I believe, the ban on Cuban exports to the U.S.