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Deep13

(39,154 posts)
Wed Dec 19, 2012, 10:57 PM Dec 2012

Obama is coming for your fold-out sofa beds!

The National Quartering Association is America's foremost champion of Third Amendment rights. It is the only thing that keeps ultra-left-wing politicians like Obama, Pelosi, and Feinstein from sending soldiers to live with you in times of peace, or in times of war without compensation.

Already guest-room grabbers in Congress are coming for your unused space, perhaps kicking you out of your own God-given queen-size with the big flat screen TV, forcing you to sleep on the futon with only a portable TV that plays VHS tapes! The horror! Meanwhile this administration is being pressured by foreign interests into supporting a UN declaration that housing is a universal right. This is just a back-door UN cot-grab that they don't want you to know about. Next thing you know, government thugs will be at your door with a squad of Marines who want to sleep in your house. They may not have the same values as you. They may not be the same color as you!

Don't say it can't happen in America! It already has. Thousands of American families right now have a soldier, sailor, airman, marine or coast guard...er...person living in their homes!

Also, Obama is black. Did we mention that? 'Cause he totally is.

So tell your friends, I'm the NQA and I vote! They can have my spare bed when they can pry my house keys from my cold, dead hands.


and... as long as we are talking about anachronistic rights...

Join the NJA to protect your Seventh Amendment right to a Federal jury trial in cases involving $20....

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Obama is coming for your fold-out sofa beds! (Original Post) Deep13 Dec 2012 OP
I was just reading about the end of quartering soldiers as a practice Recursion Dec 2012 #1
That's just what they WANT you to think! Deep13 Dec 2012 #3
He's welcome to crash on my couch as long as he needs. bluedigger Dec 2012 #2
The actual quartering act in the 1770s was for room and board. nt Deep13 Dec 2012 #4
I think I made my terms clear. bluedigger Dec 2012 #8
OMG! If Obama is anti-quartering you can be sure progressives are for it! banned from Kos Dec 2012 #5
It's the other way around. Deep13 Dec 2012 #7
You're right. I just couldn't think of the progressive position on quartering. banned from Kos Dec 2012 #9
Those fucking progressives, huh? morningfog Dec 2012 #12
Socialists who want communal housing with soldiers! Deep13 Dec 2012 #17
Well, I've got some house cleaning to do if I'm gonna have house guests. nt Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #6
Oh my Deep 13 Tutonic Dec 2012 #10
thanks nt Deep13 Dec 2012 #13
DAMMIT! I literally just got a fold out sofa for our den tonight! renie408 Dec 2012 #11
Well, the 3rd Amendent will protect you, but for how long? nt Deep13 Dec 2012 #14
And then he'll fold like a cheap sofa bed. nt pinboy3niner Dec 2012 #15
Set em up, knock em down CrazyOrangeCat Dec 2012 #16
When soldiers show up at my house expecting to be quartered, Nye Bevan Dec 2012 #18
Are you sure? They like to pick and choose which rights to defend. GoingUnder Dec 2012 #20
The ACLU defends all our rights. hrmjustin Dec 2012 #21
Not really. GoingUnder Dec 2012 #23
Do you think they are too liberal? Is it bad to be a liberal? hrmjustin Dec 2012 #25
Nope, no problem with them being liberal. GoingUnder Dec 2012 #30
You mean like they did in these cases? uppityperson Dec 2012 #33
Now you've gone and done it. TahitiNut Dec 2012 #39
"Troll now Gone Under" :) pinboy3niner Dec 2012 #41
don't they support Citizens United? nt Deep13 Dec 2012 #26
Not sure on that one. hrmjustin Dec 2012 #27
Not sure I understand how that would be bad. They are defending our rights. nm rhett o rick Dec 2012 #22
Not all of them. GoingUnder Dec 2012 #24
Your argument is lacking substance. nm rhett o rick Dec 2012 #35
I guess their work is better than nothing. GoingUnder Dec 2012 #31
So, if quartering is out Canuckistanian Dec 2012 #19
So THAT's what they're up to! Deep13 Dec 2012 #29
I hope they like tofu Kalidurga Dec 2012 #28
Just serve them salad... pinboy3niner Dec 2012 #32
there's always cat food Voice for Peace Dec 2012 #36
So I get my own soldier, sailor, airman, marine or coast guard? tblue Dec 2012 #34
LOL I had the same thought Voice for Peace Dec 2012 #38
If they outlaw beds, only outlaws will have beds jberryhill Dec 2012 #37
exactly nt Deep13 Dec 2012 #42
Well at least you get a well-regulated militia with a gun to protect you.. Historic NY Dec 2012 #40
time to start making the bathroom schedule? n/t orleans Dec 2012 #43

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
1. I was just reading about the end of quartering soldiers as a practice
Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:16 PM
Dec 2012

With the rise of conscript armies after the French Revolution it wasn't feasible anymore. They had to develop the entire modern concept of logistics pretty much as they were doing it.

 

banned from Kos

(4,017 posts)
5. OMG! If Obama is anti-quartering you can be sure progressives are for it!
Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:19 PM
Dec 2012

or something like that.

Anyway,

BLUE DOG!

Deep13

(39,154 posts)
7. It's the other way around.
Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:22 PM
Dec 2012

If this were real, then he would be pro-quartering, that is in favor of soldiers living with civilians. Of course there is probably a better name for National Quartering Association, but I could not think of an antonym for quartering.

 

banned from Kos

(4,017 posts)
9. You're right. I just couldn't think of the progressive position on quartering.
Wed Dec 19, 2012, 11:26 PM
Dec 2012

or something like that!

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
18. When soldiers show up at my house expecting to be quartered,
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 12:17 AM
Dec 2012

a quick call to the ACLU usually solves the problem.

 

GoingUnder

(10 posts)
30. Nope, no problem with them being liberal.
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 12:38 AM
Dec 2012

My problem with them is that they don't defend all of our rights. Namely second amendment issues.

uppityperson

(115,681 posts)
33. You mean like they did in these cases?
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 12:41 AM
Dec 2012
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2010/jul/22/aclu-rethinking-second-amendment/
(clip)The Florida ACLU helping a retiree get his seized guns back is just the latest in a small series of moves by ACLU state affiliates in support of gun rights. The traditionally anti-second amendment national ACLU may be changing course, too.
(clip)
Last year, the Louisiana ACLU petitioned on behalf of Errol Houston Jr. of New Orleans in a case similar to the Florida one. Houston had been arrested for carrying an illegal weapon and marijuana possession; the charges were later refused -- but the gun was never returned. The ACLU then filed the suit, which is currently on their docket.

In 2007, the Texas ACLU, in partnership with the Texas affiliate of the NRA and the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, published a report on how district attorneys and cops were abusing or ignoring law designed to protect the gun ownership rights of drivers.

Most notably, however, in 2008, the Nevada ACLU affiliate came right out and announced their support for second amendment rights, as a change in policy for the organization.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2010/jul/22/aclu-rethinking-second-amendment/#ixzz2FZ1wokt5
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Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)
28. I hope they like tofu
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 12:37 AM
Dec 2012

and carrot soup. Cause I won't be serving any meat. If they are lucky I might buy a block of cheese...

 

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)
36. there's always cat food
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 12:56 AM
Dec 2012

though the cats won't be too pleased if the quartered
soldiers eat their tuna.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
37. If they outlaw beds, only outlaws will have beds
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 12:57 AM
Dec 2012

The NQA - Whose been sleeping in YOUR bed, Papa Bear?
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