Hey Girl posted:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/03/beyonce-voters-republican-single-ladies


So excited for this to start in full force.

Shifty Pony posted:

Exactly. Last I heard the EPA went after one of the major makers of tuner kits which could be used for DPF deletion, confiscated their inventory, fined them to hell and back, and were working their way down the customer list demanding VIN numbers and proof that the kits were not installed on DPF equipped vehicles.

Every other reputable tuner manufacturer has since stopped making such kits.

Shifty Pony posted:

Exactly. Last I heard the EPA went after one of the major makers of tuner kits which could be used for DPF deletion, confiscated their inventory, fined them to hell and back, and were working their way down the customer list demanding VIN numbers and proof that the kits were not installed on DPF equipped vehicles.

Every other reputable tuner manufacturer has since stopped making such kits.

Hey Girl posted:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/03/beyonce-voters-republican-single-ladies


So excited for this to start in full force.

DemeaninDemon posted:

So you're saying more of these rear end wits that join in probably did it with poo poo parts? Does that mean they run a higher risk of seriously messing up their trucks?

Samurai Quack posted:

it's still diesel, it's just a modded engine so it's way less efficient and the combustion is incomplete.

So it's literally burning money to try and piss off environmentalists (and give your neighborhood cancer as a sidenote)

Evil Fluffy posted:

Beyonce, noted single woman who relies on the government. Truly a role model for single women everywhere.

Zwabu posted:

Hmm... what is it about Beyonce that cause these wingnuts to try to attach her name to single women Obama voters, I wonder? Certainly Beyonce would seem to be quite wealthy so I doubt she'd rely on government benefits to pay for contraception or much of anything else, really...

No, no, it must be something else, something that's not obvious to the naked eye...

Lote posted:

Indistinguishable in motivation between these guys and a Captain Planet villain

FAUXTON posted:

Yes - even above the fact that this bullshit is itself harmful to the truck.

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

They thought of everything

ANIME AKBAR posted:

Did somebody notify the RNC that there are, uh, a lot of black people in Cleveland? As in downtown Cleveland, surrounding pretty much every large venue?

Joementum posted:

In which the President, while visiting Denver, is asked, "You wanna hit this?"

InequalityGodzilla posted:

Hooray, the Republican National Convention will be held in Cleveland in 2016. Any ideas on what I, as a Cleveland native, can do to sabotage their efforts short of grabbing my rifle and taking aim at the eventual presidential nominee?

Grundulum posted:

Jesus Christ you two, you're either playing hard or you're pathetically unaware of life outside these forums.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=beyonce+single+ladies

skaboomizzy posted:

If it's anything like the 2012 GOP convention in Tampa, you won't get anywhere near it with anything.

The list of banned items in the area included boards, string or rope over a certain length, anything sharp, water guns, and a million other things... but not guns.

InequalityGodzilla posted:

Hooray, the Republican National Convention will be held in Cleveland in 2016. Any ideas on what I, as a Cleveland native, can do to sabotage their efforts short of grabbing my rifle and taking aim at the eventual presidential nominee?

Grundulum posted:

Jesus Christ you two, you're either playing hard or you're pathetically unaware of life outside these forums.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=beyonce+single+ladies

Pornographic Memory posted:

These assholes should put their mouths over those stacks and have somebody hit the gas if it's not so bad, what a bunch of loving shitstains. I'm not that great at being environmentally conscious but this makes me really, really angry.

Communist Zombie posted:

Im sorry to interrupt this happy hour but I thought id share the new way some republicans are throwing it in the face of Obummer.

COAL ROLLING



The New Way to “Screw Obama” — Poisoning Your Neighbors’ Air

Samurai Sanders posted:

When I heard the name I thought people had actually replaced the engine of their truck with some coal powerplant, that would have been rather badass in its own way. This is just dumb.

TFA posted:

The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee is refusing to cooperate with an insider trading investigation, saying its employees are “absolutely immune” from having to comply with subpoenas from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

U.S. District Court Judge Paul Gardephe ordered the committee last week to explain why it hadn’t responded to the SEC’s year-long request for documents, phone records and the testimony of staff director Brian Sutter, as part of a probe into whether he or other House members leaked private information about health care policy to insurance companies.

Rather than turning over the information, top House lawyer Kerry W. Kircher answered the order by requesting that the case be dismissed.

Kircher claimed that the request for documents violates the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution, which protects members of Congress from outside inquiry into “legislative acts” during their time in office.

“What the SEC has done is embark on a remarkable fishing expedition for congressional records -- core legislative records,” Kircher said in a court filing.

William Pittard, House deputy general counsel, also sent the SEC a letter claiming that the subpoenas are “vague, confusing, overbroad, unduly burdensome, unlikely to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence, and otherwise improper."

Pittard called the subpoenas “repugnant to public policy.”

However, history has shown both Kircher's and Pittard's claims to be questionable. The Supreme Court first found in 1966 that the Speech or Debate Clause can interfere with prosecutions of political corruption. A later case also ruled that while legislative acts are protected by the clause, political acts are still subject to investigation, which could include “errands” for constituents and assistance with government contracts.

Despite this, it is still unclear if Sutter committed a crime, because laws that prohibit insider trading among private companies are murkier in government, where the regulations are more flexible. A staff member is allowed to share an impending policy change with a lobbyist or policy expert before it is announced to the public, for example.

But Congress passed legislation like the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act to combat just that grey area — and prevent its members from taking advantage of it to illegally share insider information.

Adopted in April 2012, the law (PDF) ensures that Congress is not “exempt from the insider trading prohibitions arising under the securities law,” as part of its duty to maintain a “relationship of trust and confidence owed by each Member of Congress and each employee of Congress.”

The SEC began its investigation after a series of red flags in April 2013, a year after Congress adopted the STOCK Act. According to the filings, Sutter spoke with a lobbyist for law firm Greenberg Traurig just minutes before the lobbyist emailed a brokerage firm with information from “very credible sources” about a change in Medicare policy. The firm then sent out an alert about the upcoming change to clients, including large insurance companies like Humana, and share prices of several immediately jumped.

At the time, Sutter told federal investigators that he did not recall speaking with the lobbyist, but a few days later, a House lawyer said that “time for reflection” may have helped stir Sutter’s memory.

But the committee has since refused to answer the SEC’s requests for information. The closest it has come is asking the commission for a “substantial narrowing” of its demands and a “firm commitment that the Committee’s making available to [the] agency of certain documents would end the Committee’s and Mr. Sutter’s involvement in this matter.”

If the investigation goes to court, it will be the first securities violation case since Congress adopted the STOCK Act.

Joementum posted:

In which the President, while visiting Denver, is asked, "You wanna hit this?"

InequalityGodzilla posted:

Hooray, the Republican National Convention will be held in Cleveland in 2016. Any ideas on what I, as a Cleveland native, can do to sabotage their efforts short of grabbing my rifle and taking aim at the eventual presidential nominee?

Pornographic Memory posted:

These assholes should put their mouths over those stacks and have somebody hit the gas if it's not so bad, what a bunch of loving shitstains. I'm not that great at being environmentally conscious but this makes me really, really angry.

Heavy neutrino posted:

Er, how can this conceivably be legal? Even if somehow you can't be hit with reckless endangerment or some sort of road violation for blowing thick black smoke at cyclists on the road that obscures their vision, couldn't you get your balls sued off in civil court for deliberately blowing a known carcinogen at their faces?

Stultus Maximus posted:

DemeaninDemon posted:

New way to get high! Fill your lungs with black smoke and CO! Coors hates it!

On Terra Firma posted:

So given the most recent ruling about free speech zones at planned parenthood and what not, is that going to have any impact on where people can kick and scream at the convention? I mean doesn't it basically do away with those goofy free speech zones they had in the past?

Stultus Maximus posted:

FAUXTON posted:

You could just follow the next one of these assholes you see until they stop at a store or something and then quiksteel their gas cap to the threading on their tank.

Zeroisanumber posted:

The SCOTUS ruling was fairly narrow in scope. Basically, you only have the right to get up in someone's face and scream at them when they're a filthy whore who totally has it coming.

Pornographic Memory posted:

You know these guys who are modding their trucks like this probably really love to bring up the talking point about how low the price of gas was when Obama took office (because the economy had completely tanked in the preceding months and brought down demand) compared to now.

Kalman posted:

Falsefla.gop, anyone?