Friday, 8 April 2016

PayPal, Apple lecture North Carolina, do business in countries far more hostile to gays

quote [ “PayPal does business in 25 countries where homosexual behavior is illegal, including 5 countries where the penalty is death.” ]

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sanepride said @ 4:19am GMT on 9th April
Honestly I have no explanation for why things work this way here. It's not so much confusing as frustrating. One detail worth noting is that most state governors have a 'line item' veto power- in other words they can strike useless or unrelated add-ons from a bill (NC is one of only six states that don't grant this power, but I'm guessing Governor McCrory was fine leaving this stuff in). POTUS btw does not have this power, it's veto or sign the whole mess, so naturally Congress is always trying to sneak stuff into bills.

sanepride said @ 4:22am GMT on 9th April
Honestly I have no explanation for why things work this way here*. It's not so much confusing as frustrating. One detail worth noting is that most state governors have a 'line item' veto power- in other words they can strike useless or unrelated add-ons from a bill (NC is one of only six states that don't grant this power, but I'm guessing Governor McCrory was fine leaving this stuff in). POTUS btw does not have this power, it's veto or sign the whole mess, so naturally Congress is always trying to sneak stuff into bills.

*on thinking about it, I'd venture that this quirk is probably the unfortunate product of our attempt to balance powers between branches of government. Gives legislators some leeway in passing legislation that otherwise might never see the light of day.



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sanepride said @ 4:19am GMT on 9th April
Honestly I have no explanation for why things work this way here*. It's not so much confusing as frustrating. One detail worth noting is that most state governors have a 'line item' veto power- in other words they can strike useless or unrelated add-ons from a bill (NC is one of only six states that don't grant this power, but I'm guessing Governor McCrory was fine leaving this stuff in). POTUS btw does not have this power, it's veto or sign the whole mess, so naturally Congress is always trying to sneak stuff into bills.

*on thinking about it, I'd venture that this quirk is probably the unfortunate product of our attempt to balance powers between branches of government. Gives legislators some leeway in passing legislation that otherwise might never see the light of day.




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