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Wednesday April 30, 2003 |
06:48 PM |
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I just saw Bowling for Columbine. I missed that in the theaters. It's really good; it has a pretty realistic view of american society. |
I think too much. Let it be known across the lands! I THINK TOO MUCH. Ofcourse I feel too much too :( which usually gets me in deep trouble. Those kinda trouble can't really be fixed without some sort of scar. I call this The Learning Phase. It's where I get hurt like hell a number of times and hope I'll learn fast eno... |
Ole' blue eyes said it best: |
And then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like "I love you" |
Niemand weet waarom de dag weer nacht wordt |
Niemand weet waarom de zon nog schijnt |
Niemand weet waarom de kille wind nog waaien zou |
Maar ik weet dat ik van je hou |
-- Volumia - Hou me vast |
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• You're killing me over here with all the cutesy, sappy, romantic stuff...:) |
• I doubt I will in the near future :| But like I said, it's not something physical... If I wanted to get laid, I'd grab the first bimbo that flashed her boobs a bit too much. |
• Well, I cringed but didn't say anything about the list of how to seduce a woman and have just noticed an increase in romanticism :) You want to get laid, everyone does, but with that steamer trunk of lofty sweetness it might be hard to get them all into the bed together :) |
• Just because I think about sex all the time, doesn't mean sex is the most important thing in a relationship for me... and I don't just say that because the gorgeous in question is reading this as well. Women are mysterious, some women more than others but they all are. Women fall for romantic stuff... Just as... |
• All women are different too :) I usually found romantic stuff rather cloying unless it was spontaneous and sincere. Just don't fall into the trap so many geek guys seem to, as well as many authors, where a woman is either on a pillar and virginal or a vile evil. Women aren't all that mysterious and usually ... |
• Ofcourse. Everything in a relationship should be spontaneous altho a few things slip thru. I try to accept people (including women) as how they are, faults and everything. It's not realistic to think of someone as perfect. This is the part where I tell you about one of my ex' who happens to be evil. Altho... |
Commentary: Michigan’s Undemocratic Emergency Manager Law |
The law that allows Gov. Rick Snyder to appoint a manager over Detroit violates the basic tenets of democracy. |
Posted: 03/29/2013 11:07 AM EDT |
As Detroit wrestles with the appointment of an emergency financial manager, the city is facing not just a controversial chapter in its history, but also a crucial debate over whether the state’s takeover of the city’s finances is constitutional. |
That is the central question in a federal lawsuit filed by opponents of the decision by Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder to place the city’s finances under the control of his appointed custodian, Kevyn Orr. |
The suit focuses on the law that enables the governor to appoint an emergency manager, asserting the position completely removes the power from the residents of the city who voted into office elected officials whose duty is to deal with the city’s finances. |
The fact of the matter is that there is something outrageously undemocratic about a city whose voters have elected a mayor and members of a city council only to have the power of those officials removed by a governor. It is an effort, the likes of which are not being attempted anywhere else in the country to such a bra... |
It seems clear that the emergency manager law, which is Michigan’s Public Act 436, violates the voting rights of citizens of Detroit by eliminating their ability to empower the local officials whom they select. What’s more, it is a law that is being applied unfairly to cities across Michigan, targeting municipalities w... |
When voters go to the polls to elect city officials, they should have the right to expect that the people whom they elect will actually govern and make decisions. But, in Michigan, the assault on democracy by the Republican governor in Democratic-leaning cities with large Black constituencies has been as shocking as it... |
What makes the situation in Michigan particularly outrageous is the fact that the state’s voters approved in a referendum a measure that would have repealed the emergency manager law. But Snyder and the Republican-controlled legislature in Lansing decided that they could not possibly be derailed by something as minor a... |
All of this has occurred with very little outrage throughout the country for a disturbing battering of basic democratic tenets. |
An emergency manager has almost unlimited power to make whatever shifts in governance he or she wishes. Contracts with unions can be abolished, the power of local city councils can be abolished and city workers can be fired at whim. In short, democracy is tossed out of the window. |
When asked about this technique of governance, Snyder has said that he was elected by the voters of Michigan to make these hard decisions and that he was democratically elected to do what’s best for the cities in his state. |
But isn’t the democracy that enabled voters to elect Snyder the same as the democracy of the people who elect Detroit’s mayor and city council? Is it not the same democracy that empowered the people of the state to reject the emergency manager law in the referendum? Democracy should not be a feature that can be observe... |
The hope is that the federal judge will agree and throw a well-deserved wrench into Snyder’s unfair and racially selective application of the emergency manager law. And it couldn’t come a minute too soon. |
(Photo: REUTERS/ Rebecca Cook) |
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