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Legislator invokes Godwin's Law
By Brett on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 1:00pm
Representative John Binienda:
“The idea of the badge by lobbyists to me, I kind of find that revolting,” [...] “Hitler during the concentration camps tattooed all of the Jewish people so he would know who was Jew and who wasn’t, and that’s something that I just don’t go along with.”
For those who don't know: Godwin's law.
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Massachusetts, you're doing it wrong
So, our Democrats are putting their feet in their mouth and the Republicans are making ethics reforms? No wonder the rest of the country hates us.
MA, I am disappoint.
connecticut
In Connecticut lobbyists have had to wear badges at the state capitol for a long time. My dad being one of them. Seems pretty harmless.
In CT, They also have to
In CT, They also have to stand in a corral of velvet ropes, sort of like well dressed cattle
Of course he has no problem
with scumbags who throw money and favors at politicians for their votes. Ahhh...Massachusetts!
Godwin's Law usage question
In this case wouldn't you, Brett, be the one (correctly)invoking Godwin's law?
Why does this have a 'Boston' tag?
This doof doesn't represent any Boston metro-ites. In fact, why is it even an article on uHub?
It's an article here because...
...ANYONE can post a new topic here (and can assign whatever tags they want).
And, truth be told, this is a Mass. legislator -- so he does (in theory) _work_ in Boston.
I have no idea on the first question
I didn't assign any tags.
To answer your second question: purely to piss you off. Also, it's pretty big news when a state legislator with so much power says something THAT stupid...or it should be.
Blame me for the "Boston" tag
I'm using a module that lets me select one specific neighborhood or town as the "primary topic" of a post. Why? So I can do stuff like make sure Whole Foods ads show up only on posts about Jamaica Plain (I could do that with some PHP logic, but that would involve parsing an array of topic names and I hate, hate, hate arrays, the one class I failed in college was linear algebra, which is basically all about arrays; it's a good thing I don't tend to remember my dreams, because I'm sure I've had nightmares about arrays).
Unfortunately, the module doesn't have a "none" option, so if somebody posts something without a specific town or neighborhood selected, it defaults to "Boston." Kinda sucks, especially because an older version of the module did have that option, but I can't go back to it because it might mess up the table used to store the data.
In any event, I've changed the tag.