It's come to this... the only serving Black US Senator ,Tim Scott was NOT invited to attend the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's march on Washington.

THere really wasn't all that many people there based on the videos I saw on the local news... they kept the videos in tight with certain restricted spaces where people didn't have space to spread out... not showing any wide expanses filled with people.

Not all that much foot traffic a few blocks away like would be expected and certainly no heavy traffic. And THAT part was my direct observations during the day being I work in downtown not far away.

They couldn't have paid me enough to go down there to the Mall to listen to the Chief Bloviator.

He still could have attended, even if he wasn't asked to speak. A lot of people showed up without invitation, and some were white. A lot of white republicans that were invited declined.

He hasn't been invited to speak at any conservative rallies either, has he?

Hello tom:

A lot of people weren't invited, many who were ACTIVE in the civil rights movement... This guy WASN'T elected. He HAS no constituency. He's NOT going to run again.. He hasn't introduced any civil rights legislation. He's only keeping the seat warm . What did he do except be born black? His party doesn't support any of the goals of MLK. HE doesn't support any of the goals of MLK.

Tell me again, WHY he should be invited??

excon

I can't imagine why the only sitting black senator wasn't invited or why Republicans declined to be a part of it.

Meanwhile, it's bad to be the ex-lover of Kim Jong-un, or the Nork's version of a 'pop' singer, or musician, or associated with them in any way.


Kim Jong-un's ex-lover 'executed by firing squad' (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/10272953/Kim-Jong-uns-ex-lover-executed-by-firing-squad.html)

Kim Jong-un's ex-girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad nine days ago, according to South Korean reports.

Hyon Song-wol, a singer, rumoured to be a former lover of the North Korean leader, is said to have been arrested on Aug 17 with 11 others for violating laws against pornography.

The reports in South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper indicate that Hyon, a singer with the Unhasu Orchestra, was among those arrested on August 17 for violating domestic laws on pornography.

All 12 were machine-gunned three days later, with other members of North Korea's most famous pop groups and their immediate families forced to watch. The onlookers were then sent to prison camps, victims of the regime's assumption of guilt by association, the reports stated.

“They were executed with machine guns while the key members of the Unhasu Orchestra, Wangjaesan Light Band and Moranbong Band as well as the families of the victims looked on,” said a Chinese source reported in the newspaper.

Hyon's band was responsible for a string of patriotic hits in North Korea, including "Footsteps of Soldiers," "I Love Pyongyang," "She is a Discharged Soldier" and "We are Troops of the Party." Her popularity reportedly peaked in 2005 with the song "Excellent Horse-Like Lady."

The 12 who were executed were singers, musicians or dancers with the Hyon's band, the Unhasu Orchestra or the Wanghaesan Light Music Band and were accused of making videos of themselves performing sex acts and then selling the recordings.

The reports stated that both groups have been disbanded as a result of the scandal.

Some of the musicians were also found to have bibles when they were detained and all were treated as political dissidents.

I know if I were one of The Moranbong Girls (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100219118/meet-north-koreas-new-girl-band-five-girls-who-just-wanna-have-state-sanctioned-fun/) I might be a little concerned right now.

I can't imagine why the only sitting black senator wasn't invited or why Republicans declined to be a part of it.

Meanwhile, it's bad to be the ex-lover of Kim Jong-un, or the Nork's version of a 'pop' singer, or musician, or associated with them in any way.



I know if I were one of The Moranbong Girls (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timstanley/100219118/meet-north-koreas-new-girl-band-five-girls-who-just-wanna-have-state-sanctioned-fun/) I might be a little concerned right now.

I guess Mr. Teenie Weinie needs to keep how bad he is in bed a secret... no matter how many murders it takes.

Tim Scott Declined Invitation To Attend MLK Event As Spectator | TPM LiveWire (http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/tim-scott-didnt-speak-at-mlk-event-because)

It's come to this...

Teen employment hits record lows, suggesting lost generation (http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/08/29/200769/teen-employment-hits-record-lows.html#.UiC34n_b2nN)

I have the solution, let's just raise the minimum wage to say, $15 an hour.

The Average Age Of Fast Food Worker Is 28 - Photo #2 From 10 Things You Don (http://www.ifood.tv/photo/the-average-age-of-fast-food-worker-is-28)


If you thought that the fast food industry workforce was made up of happy-go-lucky teenagers looking for some pocket change, think again. As jobs become limited, many older employees are forced to work in the fast food industry and work hard for their living. So, it is not fun anymore!

How about two lost generations.

The Average Age Of Fast Food Worker Is 28 - Photo #2 From 10 Things You Don (http://www.ifood.tv/photo/the-average-age-of-fast-food-worker-is-28)



How about two lost generations.

Most of those are High school dropouts lucky to be able to tie their own shoes or illegals that can't speak english...


Who's fault are those... not mine .

I find this disturbing on so many levels...

Sex between students and teachers should not be a crime - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sex-between-students-and-teachers-should-not-be-a-crime/2013/08/30/dbf7dcca-1107-11e3-b4cb-fd7ce041d814_story.html?wprss=rss_homepage)

Yes, it should.

I find this disturbing on so many levels...

Sex between students and teachers should not be a crime - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sex-between-students-and-teachers-should-not-be-a-crime/2013/08/30/dbf7dcca-1107-11e3-b4cb-fd7ce041d814_story.html?wprss=rss_homepage)

Yes, it should.

That's part of why its known as the Washington COMpost.

Told you the next big slippery slope moment would be to challenge 'age of consent laws '

You guy sure see stuff that's not there, as this is no challenge to the age of consent but a challenge to how its prosecuted.


The intensity of criminal proceedings, with all the pressure they put on participants, the stigma, the community and media scrutiny, and the concurrent shame and guilt they generate, do the opposite of healing and protecting the victim.

Laws related to statutory rape are in place to protect children, but the issue of underage sex, and certainly of sex between students and teachers, may be one in which the law of unintended consequences is causing so much damage that society needs to reassess.

Show me where this is about the age of consent, and not the treatment of the victims. If grown rape victims are afraid to come forward, what makes you think a kid will? Especially a 16 year old that thinks its love but it rape?

The author is asking for more consideration for the victims, not the perps.

So the answer is to decriminalize ?

Here is the pertinent paragraph:

I don't believe that all sexual conduct between underage students and teachers should necessarily be classified as rape, and I believe that absent extenuating circumstances, consensual sexual activity between teachers and students should not be criminalized.

But then again... the libs didn't think that a POTUS taking advantage of an intern was a biggie

I don't agree with the author on that point at all as adults should know better, and its still statutory rape to a vast majority of liberals, just not this one. Extenuating circumstances my a$$.

A 49 year old man and authority figure having "consensual" sex with a 14 year old? And it damages society to prosecute and punish the guy? Get real.

The author was clear about the further damage being done to the victim.

Incoherent is the word.

It's come to this...



Can These Students Fix Wikipedia's Lady Problem? (http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2013/08/storming-wikipedia-women-problem-internet)

Earlier this month, Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales told conference-goers in Hong Kong that a whopping 87 percent of the site's editors are men. It wasn't the first time Wikipedia's gender imbalance had played out in the media: In Februrary, staff acknowledged that it affected the online encyclopedia's content, and a New York Times op-ed in April noted that Wikipedia editors had been moving women from the "American Novelists" category to the "American Women Novelists" subcategory.

So what's a tech-savvy woman to do? "Storming Wikipedia," a project of the feminist organization FemTechNet and an assignment given to students participating in FemTechNet's new online course, is designed to fix this imbalance. During these exercises students edit Wikipedia en masse, "with the goal being to collaboratively write feminist thinking into the site," says Alexandra Juhasz, professor of media studies at California's Pitzer College and one of the course facilitators.

Students participating in the exercise will create and expand Wikipedia articles on influential women and encourage "feminists, academics, and activists to contribute to Wikipedia and help revolutionize its culture." According to Inside Higher Ed, "students will be given lists of women who have played key roles in science and technology," and will tweak articles to acknowledge their contributions.

FemTechNet, which Juhasz calls "a collective of international feminist scholars, artists, and activists," is launching an online curriculum focused on educating people about the relationship between women and technology. Starting in September, instructors at 15 different colleges, including Brown, Yale, and Penn State University, will be offering "Dialogues on Feminism and Technology." Students taking the course will study technology through a feminist lens using prerecorded videos featuring prominent feminist scholars.

Who cares? What is this silly 3rd grade mentality that everything must be equal? "Storming Wikipedia," lol.

I was not aware that Wiki was excluding women editors

Just what they need... "students" that believe SHaka Khan built the pyramids along with his nubian warriers... and that Egyptions were figments of a WHite mans propaganda.

The same "Students" believe the Mezo-american pyramids were stolen from Egypt and should be returned.

The same "Students" who on average are horribly unprepared for college when the graduate?

Lol then there are some that think it was impossible for ancient humans to build such structures and that it was aliens that did it .

LOL... or a talking snake or talking burning bush or making a woman from a man's rib. Lol!

Some people take the words more literal... some take it more allegorical

So I hear.

Some people also believe humans are the most intelligent beings in existence... despite ample evidence to the contrary.

lol then there are some that think it was impossible for ancient humans to build such structures and that it was aliens that did it .

Hell, its impossible for large numbers of MODERN humans to change a flat tire... I think they share those two things in common.

Hell, its impossible for large numbers of MODERN humans to change a flat tire.....I think they share those two things in common.

That's because we are going through de-evolution

The Virginia governors race has come to this. Supporters of the Clinton approved candidate are impersonating the opponent.


Was that Cuccinelli at aquarium? Tale sounds fishy | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com (http://hamptonroads.com/2013/09/was-ken-cuccinelli-aquarium-tale-sounds-fishy)

By Julian Walker
The Virginian-Pilot
© September 6, 2013

The guy with the salt-and-pepper hair introducing himself to voters at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center wasn’t Ken Cuccinelli.

It just sort of looked like him.

An impostor posing as the Republican attorney general and candidate for governor briefly visited the aquarium over the weekend before employees got wise and called police.

Aside from the iffy resemblance, another clue that gave him away was the presence of an anti-Cuccinelli mobile billboard.

The fake Cuccinelli appearance and the billboard were sponsored by NextGen Climate Action Committee, a super PAC largely funded by a wealthy California environmentalist. NextGen has spent close to $1 million on a pair of Virginia-specific ads attacking Cuccinelli that have been televised here in the past month.

It gets even more childish than that... rumor has it Cuccinelli cheered for BYU over Virginia.


An affiliated group also hired an airplane to fly a banner claiming Cuccinelli supported Brigham Young University over the University of Virginia football stadium as the teams played last weekend.

On Saturday, aquarium staffers realized something was amiss when someone noticed what appeared to be prosthetics glued to the face of the actor playing Cuccinelli. Police detained the impersonator and a few associates for questioning before they were released without charges.

Virginia Beach Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Colin Stolle said police brought the issue to the attention of prosecutors who “agreed with their decision there just wasn’t a crime here.”

How low can they go?

Hello again, Steve:

How low can they go?Well, they COULD pass laws that prevent white people from voting... But, that's what YOUR party does..

Excon

I guess you missed where voter ID increased minority turnout. And that has nothing to do with the campaign.

That's because you pissed people off by making it harder to vote.

The irony, its harder to vote so more people did so.

Hello again, Steve:

The irony, its harder to vote so more people did so.Like the drug war, you'll have to crack down a little harder. And, I have no doubt you will.

Excon

Hello again, Steve:
Like the drug war, you'll have to crack down a little harder. And, I have no doubt you will.

excon

Exactly what will our next step be, bring back literacy tests?

The irony, its harder to vote so more people did so.

But that wasn't your intention, your own lawmakers and party leaders said it was to shave the votes of minorities, so you guys could win, on the state and local level. Why else would they try to move voting places in NC, Elizabeth City, to be specific from a largely minority college campus, to a small building with no sidewalks, bus service, or adequate parking lot, and combine three precincts into one precinct with it. Instead of serving 1,500 people, they want it to serve 9,000 voters on one day!!

Voter integrity my arse, you really think people are that dumb to see the REAL goal?

Exactly what will our next step be, bring back literacy tests?

How about early voting? And Sunday voting. Hell electronic voting from home. IP addresses are ID's you know.

How about early voting? And Sunday voting. Hell electronic voting from home. IP addresses are ID's ya know.

First, I am happy that voter ID increased minority turnout and prevented fraud. That's all I asked for was to lessen the probability of MY vote being canceled by fraud

Second, an IP address doesn't tell you who might have used the device.

I can dig a fair election, but we have to pause when its stated by those hollering fraud that the intent was to shave votes, and that's cheating and not fair. But you don't care because all you care about is FRAUD, and not CHEATING... Really dude??

IP verification is NOT that hard and used in business especially retail, successfully already. Its an APP than be tweaked EASILY for voting registration, and voting. Heck its already in use for voter registration in most states including TEXAS.

TX Electronic Voter Registration Reform - WatchdogWire - Texas (http://watchdogwire.com/texas/2013/05/16/texas-electronic-voter-registration-reform/)

Electronic (or Online) Voter Registration (http://www.ncsl.org/legislatures-elections/elections/electronic-or-online-voter-registration.aspx)


UPDATE: Governor Pat Quinn, of Illinois, has signed an online voter registration bill, bringing to 18 the number of states with laws providing for paperless online voter registation. Governors in Virginia and West Virginia also signed online registration bills in 2013. And in New Mexico, Governor Susana Martinez signed HB 497, permitting voters to update existing registration records electronically, and HB 225, clarifying that voter registration in the Motor Vehicle Division offices or field offices will be conducted so that the applicant completes the full certificate of registration electronically and that the digital signature to affix to the certificate of registration will be in conformance with the Electronic Authentication of Documents Act (EADA) and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA).

Overview

Arizona was the innovator when it comes to paperless registration, having implemented its system in 2002. Washington followed with authorizing legislation in 2007 and implementation in 2008. As of August 2013, a total of 12 states offer online registration, and another six states have passed legislation but have yet to implement their online voter registration systems. Four states presently offer limited online voter registration. See the table below for details on all of these states.

Voter signatures are a critical element of any voter registration system. Signature matching is used in a variety of ways, including voter check-in at polling places as well as signatures on absentee ballot applications and security envelopes containing voted absentee ballot. Most of the states utilizing paperless online voter registration rely on digitized signatures already on file with divisions of motor vehicles to capture a voter's signature.

Of course, security for online voter registration issues is an essential element of system design. Read this interview with cybersecurity expert, J. Alex Halderman, as he talks about security for online registration.

For a guy with a Galaxy IPad, and I bet you have all the apps, and has good computer skills, you don't sound very progressive sometimes.

I can dig a fair election, but we have to pause when its stated by those hollering fraud that the intent was to shave votes, and that's cheating and not fair. But you don't care because all you care about is FRAUD, and not CHEATING.............................Really dude???

IP verification is NOT that hard and used in business especially retail, successfully already. Its an APP than be tweaked EASILY for voting registration, and voting. Heck its already in use for voter registration in most states including TEXAS.

TX Electronic Voter Registration Reform - WatchdogWire - Texas (http://watchdogwire.com/texas/2013/05/16/texas-electronic-voter-registration-reform/)

Electronic (or Online) Voter Registration (http://www.ncsl.org/legislatures-elections/elections/electronic-or-online-voter-registration.aspx)



For a guy with a Galaxy IPad, and I bet you have all the apps, and has good computer skills, you don't sound very progressive sometimes.

Cheating, fraud, any type of illegal voting is what I want stopped and I'm not opposed to online voting, just saying an IP address does not say so used the machine. And Samsung makes the Galaxy, Apple makes iPads. Dude.

Sorry grandson wasn't available for consultation, but how can you get past what your guys are saying was THEIR INTENT for voter ID laws?

Why shouldn't a real ID be required to vote... only citizens have the right to vote...

The so-called people "too poor" to get an ID... somehow have ID's to file for and collect welfare and other handouts. ALL of which require ID's.

Why shouldn't a real ID be required to vote...only citizens have the right to vote....

The so-called people "too poor" to get an ID...somehow have ID's to file for and collect welfare and other handouts. ALL of which require ID's.

Why do we need NEW ID's just for voting, when we already have ID's to live in the lives we have already? Why? Because you wingers want to throw obstacles in the way of the people you know will vote for anybody but you. (even when its well documented that you guys committed the most egregious frauds the last election cycle)

Republican officials and leaders have said so. But no winger has ever commented on that issue at all. Thanks for making the case.

Why do we need NEW ID's just for voting, when we already have ID's to live in the lives we have already? Why? Because you wingers want to throw obstacles in the way of the people you know will vote for anybody but you. (even when its well documented that you guys committed the most egregious frauds the last election cycle)

Republican officials and leaders have said so. But no winger has ever commented on that issue at all. Thanks for making the case.

You can vote with the same ID's you use to apply for and collect welfare... so the excuse the lefties have been using about keeping people from voting is total and complete Bovine Excrement.

Sorry grandson wasn't available for consultation, but how can you get past what your guys are saying was THEIR INTENT for voter ID laws?

What is the intent for Obamacare? Environmental regulations? Immigration reform? Don't b*tch at us about intent, democrats have been lying to us about intent for as long as I can remember.

You can vote with the same ID's you use to apply for and collect welfare......so the excuse the lefties have been using about keeping people from voting is total and complete Bovine Excrement.

Are you that dense, you guys make laws that you can't use the ID you have, you have to run out and get a NEW one at a state office with a camera.

But it's a non issue, or will be for the next election, unless you guys pull another trick to prevent fraud.

Are you that dense, you guys make laws that you can't use the ID you have, you have to run out and get a NEW one at a state office with a camera.

But it's a non issue, or will be for the next election, unless you guys pull another trick to prevent fraud.

You have to excuse me if I don't take the word of anyone that voted for Obama at face value... For the most part they tend to be fact challenged.

The only place that should be happening is states that Issue Drivers licenses or State ID cards to illegals... rendering them useless as proof someone is legally a citizen. And its only lefty states that even WANT to do that. SO dump that on those states because its those actions that will render certain forms of ID worthless.

You have to excuse me if I don't take the word of anyone that voted for Obama at face value....For the most part they tend to be fact challenged.

The only place that should be happening is states that Issue Drivers licenses or State ID cards to illegals....rendering them useless as proof someone is legally a citizen. And its only lefty states that even WANT to do that. SO dump that on those states because its those actions that will render certain forms of ID worthless.

Hey you should be happy someone wants to vote

hey you should be happy someone wants to vote

No.. because the illegals are breaking yet ANOTHER law when they attempt to illegally vote. Just one more crime in a growing list of crimes they commit.

So there you go, another reason to send them back, be happy

You just can't make this stuff up. The always anti-war Hollywood is silent on the emperor's threat to bomb brown people like Bush did, partially because the emperor is black.
(http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/syria-why-hollywoods-anti-war-623326)

Another reason some Hollywood progressives have been reticent to speak out against war in Syria, according to Asner, is fear of being called racist.

"A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama," he said.

In other words, you're really cowards, and if you fear it now you shouldn't have been playing that pathetic game all these years.

Hello again, Steve:

Well, we got our Ed Asners, and you got your Michell Bachmanns..

Do you get as big a thrill pointing out screwed up lefty's, as I do pointing out screwed up righty's??

excon

Hello again, Steve:

Well, we got our Ed Asners, and you got your Michell Bachmanns..

Do you get as big a thrill pointing out screwed up lefty's, as I do pointing out screwed up righty's???

excon

Actually the post was about Hollywood, not Asner. His reference was to others.

Who's up for some "mild pedophilia (http://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/richard_dawkins_defends_mild_pedophilia_says_it_do es_not_cause_lasting_harm/)?"


In a recent interview with the Times magazine, Richard Dawkins attempted to defend what he called “mild pedophilia,” which, he says, he personally experienced as a young child and does not believe causes “lasting harm.”

Dawkins went on to say that one of his former school masters “pulled me on his knee and put his hand inside my shorts,” and that to condemn this “mild touching up” as sexual abuse today would somehow be unfair.

“I am very conscious that you can’t condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours. Just as we don’t look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like caning, like mild pedophilia, and can’t find it in me to condemn it by the same standards as I or anyone would today,” he said.

Plus, he added, though his other classmates also experienced abuse at the hands of this teacher, “I don’t think he did any of us lasting harm.”

Alrighty then. I did not realize there were such degrees of pedophilia, but I'm going to take a shot here and assume Dawkins is a practitioner. Otherwise, how can anyone defend teachers and other perverts feeling up little boys and girls... never mind, they can defend child rapists (http://eagnews.org/father-of-molested-student-talks-about-his-familys-anguish-and-his-outrage-toward-teachers-who-supported-the-pedophile/) so why not a little "mild pedophilia" as long as it doesn't do any "lasting harm?"

Sorry but no, no, no, no.

Gregory, who used to be funny, compared Walmart to Hitler (http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2535869).


Comedian and civil rights activist Gregory compared Wal-Mart to the leader of Nazi Germany at a "living wage" rally in front of the D.C. City Council on Tuesday.

"When you look at Hitler and those thugs, you can put Wal-Mart right next to them," Gregory said in his speech to the 150 or so people at the event. The crowd was gathered to protest D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray's veto of a bill that would have singled out the retail giant and forced it pay its employees $12.50 an hour.

A whole 150 people, eh?

So, one of you really, really smart libs help me out here. How is Walmart like Hitler?

I guess Walmart has been grinding up employees they find sleeping on he job and selling them as hamburger?

Something that the DC Councel should consider based on their recent track record for corruption in office to keep them on the straight and narrow..

... solve the unemployment issues by driving up the cost of labor . Got to love liberal thinking

You figure they would have learned under Jimmy Carters inflation that jacking up costs in one place... jacks them up other places as a result... and when its all said and done you are further in the hole than when you started.

...solve the unemployment issues by driving up the cost of labor . Gotta love liberal thinking

Because it doesn't matter how you get there as long as you're moving forward. They aren't in it for style points you know.

Or is it profit by cheap labor in underdeveloped countries? Because Americans cost too much. You sure ain't solving unemployment with part time service jobs.

I mean it's the righties who think that people are dependent on welfare while keeping wages low and the prices rising.

You sure ain't solving unemployment with part time service jobs.
someone who supports Obamacare should not be complaining about the part time jobs your policies created

The ones who supported supply side economics broke the business model and created the part time service jobs not Obama care. Obama Care didn't tank the economy around the world, but it's a convenient lie to blame everybody but the real culprits.

Yeah Obama broke the business model too huh? You are going to stick with that lie I suppose.

What has Obama fixed? I haven't seen one single thing he's made better. His ruined everything he's gotten his hands on.

someone who supports Obamacare should not be complaining about the part time jobs your policies created

The irony...

It's come to this...

Public masturbation not a crime: Swedish court (http://www.thelocal.se/50214/20130912/)

It's come to this...

Public masturbation not a crime: Swedish court (http://www.thelocal.se/50214/20130912/)

Didn't they only just recently outlaw that sort of thing in San Francisco? Like the past couple years? I guess liberals got tired of explaining how they were pumping up their spare tire.

Originally Posted by tomder55
Someone who supports Obamacare should not be complaining about the part time jobs your policies created

The same people who destroyed all the middle class factory jobs are the ones creating part time service jobs.

The same people who destroyed all the middle class factory jobs are the ones creating part time service jobs.

You mean like GM-Government Motors ?

One of many.

Gregory, who used to be funny, compared Walmart to Hitler (http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2535869).



A whole 150 people, eh?

So, one of you really, really smart libs help me out here. How is Walmart like Hitler?

I'm not really smart and I am not much of a lib but I will give it a go. Has the similarity got something to do with his name almost having the same number of letters as Walmart?

The lefties think it would be fair for high school dropouts to make the same as doctors... since so many of them don't want to or can't make the effort to improve themselves and climb the ladder. They want it all handed to them at once.

They also compare everyone they don't like to Hitler... or the KKK... usually when they don't have anything intelligent to say.

I'm not really smart and I am not much of a lib but I will give it a go. Has the similarity got something to do with his name almost having the same number of letters as Walmart?

Good catch, and three of them are the same.

http://www.hunt101.com/data/500/magicnig6.jpg

It's come to this... (http://www.cnbc.com/id/101046068)


When François Hollande came to power last year, his most famous election promise was to impose a 75 per cent tax rate on those earning more than €1m a year. Now France’s socialist president has acknowledged that the country is hitting the tax buffers.

In a television interview this week, he noted that both his and the previous centre-right government had raised taxes in total by €60bn since 2011, equivalent to about 3 per cent of national income. “That’s a lot – that’s to say, too much,” he said.

Mr Hollande has promised a “tax pause”, backing up his finance minister, Pierre Moscovici, who last month triggered a political tremor when he said he was “very conscious that the French are fed up with taxes”.

French business leaders have been clamouring for relief from a relentless increase in the tax burden, which government projections show will rise to 46.5 per cent of gross domestic product next year, one of the highest levels among developed economies. Recent polls have indicated the French public increasingly feels much the same.

Sacrebleu! OK, now I think they're just mocking us, but then after Obama's fumbles this year that's to be expected. Shame Democrats won't listen to us when we tell them to back off.

And yet another European socialist nation is having second thoughts .


King Willem-Alexander, alongside his wife, Queen Maxima, told the Dutch people that they must create their own social and financial safety nets, and that looking to the state for help was a thing of the 20th century.
Dutch king declares end of the welfare state | euronews, world news (http://www.euronews.com/2013/09/18/dutch-king-declares-end-of-the-welfare-state/)
Meanwhile the US rushes headlong to the failed experiment of the statists.

and yet another European socialist nation is having second thoughts .


Dutch king declares end of the welfare state | euronews, world news (http://www.euronews.com/2013/09/18/dutch-king-declares-end-of-the-welfare-state/)
Meanwhile the US rushes headlong to the failed experiment of the statists.

"they must create their own social and financial safety nets, and that looking to the state for help was a thing of the 20th century?"

What in the world is going on here, Is the end of the world coming soon?

It was not immediately clear if the 100 million euros spent by the government on maintaining the Royal House, with its castles and parades, would be included in the austerity cuts.

Recent polls show confidence in the government at a record low and that most Dutch people believe the cabinet's austerity policies are at least partially to blame.

The Dutch economy is expected to have shrunk by more than one percent in 2013, and is worsening while recoveries are underway in Britain, Germany and France.

A socialist society that forgoes equal equity on its citizens is just a fancy dictatorship and the same can be said of so called federalist nations.

Right over his head...

Waiting for the example of the socialist nation that isn't run by a cabal of the elites.

nation that isn't run by a cabal of the elites.You mean other than American politics?

I would argue that the US has been a socialist country for close to a century .

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/14/149743/2931438-Dudley_Do_Right_by_Marvelousboy.jpg

I would argue that the US has been a socialist country for close to a century .I think you're trying to use the word as a pejorative within understanding what it really means.

Vindication...

Conviction of ex-US House leader DeLay's tossed (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/conviction-ex-us-house-leader-delays-tossed)

Not only was DeLay's conviction overturned, he was acquitted, something I hear is quite rare for a jury trial.


A Texas appeals court tossed the criminal conviction of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Thursday, saying there was insufficient evidence for a jury in 2010 to have found him guilty of illegally funneling money to Republican candidates.

DeLay was found guilty of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering for helping illegally funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002. He was sentenced to three years in prison, but his sentence was on hold while his case made its way through the appellate process.

The Texas 3rd Court of Appeals said the evidence was "legally insufficient," and in a 2-1 ruling decided to "reverse the judgments of the trial court and render judgments of acquittal."

Now, about that worm Ronnie Earle...

And DeLay ,like Ray Donovan said "Which office do I go to get my reputation back?"

Hello again, tom:

DeLay ,like Ray Donovan said "Which office do I go to get my reputation back?"Not guilty does NOT mean innocent.

Excon

Hello again, tom:
Not guilty does NOT mean innocent.

excon

No one is innocent except those unborn babies your side refuses to protect, but I digress. He was acquitted of the charges. IN fact the ruling makes it quite clear it should have never gone to trial, the jury received poor instructions and there is no reason to attempt a retrial. DeLay is the second Republican vindicated recently, the late Ted Stevens is the other.

Meanwhile Cold Cash Jefferson still has some time to think in his cell.

This isn't a banana republic where a person with a badge and a vendetta goes after political opponents . The whole thing was rigged to coordinate with Madame Mimi's "culture of corruption "campaign . The sad part of it was that the Repubics would not rally to his defense even as the case against him was tissue thin. You think the Dems would throw one of their own under the bus ? All I have to say about that is... Charlie Rangel.

Right... Bill CLinton wasn't innocent... Hillary Clinton wasn't innocent... and Barrak Obama isn't innocent.

You think conservative Texas judges would put their old buddy in jail? Not enough evidence to sustain the conviction was the ruling.

Welcome another Fox News political analyst to the fold.

You think conservative Texas judges would put their old buddy in jail? Not enough evidence to sustain the conviction was the ruling.

Welcome another Fox News political analyst to the fold.

I hope he runs for the House and the Repubics depose Bonehead as speaker and select him as speaker

Eric Holder refuses to have a legitimatre investigateion on Fast and Furious.. or Benghazi. the IRS scandle... and those are BIG issues...

You think conservative Texas judges would put their old buddy in jail? Not enough evidence to sustain the conviction was the ruling.

Welcome another Fox News political analyst to the fold.

Earle had to shop his charges against DeLay to three different grand juries before he could get an indictment, and then lie to the grand jury about a document he later admitted did not exist in order to get an indictment.

Leave it to Tal to impugn everyone except the guy that deserves it, Ronnie Earle.

It's come to this...


California College Forbids Passing Out Constitutions...On Constitution Day (http://thefire.org/article/16246.html)
September 19, 2013

MODESTO, Calif. September 19, 2013—In a stunning illustration of the attitude taken towards free speech by too many colleges across the United States, Modesto Junior College in California told a student that he could not pass out copies of the United States Constitution outside the student center on September 17, 2013—Constitution Day. Captured on video, college police and administrators demanded that Robert Van Tuinen stop passing out Constitution pamphlets and told him that he would only be allowed to pass them out in the college’s tiny free speech zone, and only after scheduling it several days or weeks ahead of time. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has written to Modesto, demanding that the college rescind this policy immediately.

Because heaven forbid anyone be assaulted by the words of the constitution. I remember when the left LOVED free speech and would be outraged by this sort of thing. Whatever happened to that?

It's come to this...



Because heaven forbid anyone be assaulted by the words of the constitution. I remember when the left LOVED free speech and would be outraged by this sort of thing. Whatever happened to that?

I bet you can get condoms and Directions to Abortion centers outside the tiny free speech zone... Not to mention enough leftist propaganda to choke a whale to death..

You presume its lefties doing this, but has anyone checked for sure? It could be some conservative snob hob just as easily. No matter who did it, they would be wrong in my view unless there is more than meets the eye.

You presume its lefties doing this, but has anyone checked for sure? It could be some conservative snob hob just as easily. No matter who did it, they would be wrong in my view unless there is more than meets the eye.

It's a university... and only lefties hate the constitution because it gets in the way of their agenda.

Righties don't run universities?

You presume its lefties doing this, but has anyone checked for sure? It could be some conservative snob hob just as easily. No matter who did it, they would be wrong in my view unless there is more than meets the eye.

Ummm because it's part of the California Community Colleges System (CCCS) ,that has a board of Governors appointed by the Jerry Brown .

Righties don't run universities?

THere are some, but not very many...

It has little to do with handing out constitution pamphlets and everything to do with following guidelines for assembly/protest on campus grounds. Would be the same results if it were a pro-choice demonstration or a anti-kool-aid demonstration.
But, yea, free-speech zones are stupid, but it applies to everyone equally.

You presume its lefties doing this, but has anyone checked for sure? It could be some conservative snob hob just as easily. No matter who did it, they would be wrong in my view unless there is more than meets the eye.

Dude, it is lefties that created these silly speech zones and speech codes. Conservatives fight against them and for the first amendment. You're welcome.

It has little to do with handing out constitution pamphlets and everything to do with following guidelines for assembly/protest on campus grounds. Would be the same results if it were a pro-choice demonstration or a anti-kool-aid demonstration.
But, yea, free-speech zones are stupid, but it applies to everyone equally.

They apply equally but you ASSUME they're enforced equally. Quite often they are not, which is one reason organizations like FIRE exist.

Well you ASSUMED it was solely because it was material related to the constitution that make them stop the pamphlet distribution. Right?

Well you ASSUMED it was solely because it was material related to the constitution that make them stop the pamphlet distribution. Right?

No, I ASSUMED the constitution would be welcome anywhere on campus and not subject to speech codes.

You assumed incorrectly.

You assumed incorrectly.

And hence my post, waiting on that outrage over such assaults on the first amendment.

You're outraged everyday so no surprise there LOL!

You're outraged everyday so no surprise there LOL!

Right over your head as usual and right on cue, too (https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/3554644-post314.html). You make it too easy.

That doesn't even fit in this conversation LOL.

That doesn't even fit in this conversation LOL.

When did anything have to fit in the conversation?

Good point. This is just a ranting board.

Yes but if we didn't have it we would go out and shoot something

Perhaps for the housebound ones, my sports do me well in that area.

Perhaps for the housebound ones, my sports do me well in that area.

To each his own

NARAL sent the Pope a thank you card on behalf of pro-choice women everywhere for some reason.

NARAL hilariously jumps the gun on Pope Francis "Thank You" card. - Naked DC (http://nakeddc.com/2013/09/23/naral-hilariously-jumps-gun-pope-francis-thank-card/)

http://nakeddc.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/mkbx2v.png

Apparently they latched on to one particular comment, assumed the Pope was no longer Catholic and didn't bother to read the rest of his comments, such as this:


In his comments, Francis denounced today’s “throw-away culture” that justifies disposing of lives, and said doctors in particular had been forced into situations where they are called to “not respect life.”

“Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord,” he said.

He urged the gynecologists to abide by their consciences and help bring lives into the world. “Things have a price and can be for sale, but people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things,” he said.


You'll have to scroll to the bottom of the article and see the rest for yourself...

It's come to this...

Venezuela orders temporary takeover of toilet paper factory | Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/21/us-venezuela-toiletpaper-idUSBRE98K00420130921)

Just think about the glorious possibilities of central planning our health care...

Is it dry and moistened ? (how did the EPA miss this ? )
Moist towelettes are a bane to sewer systems | Minnesota Public Radio News (http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/09/23/environment/moist-towelettes-are-a-bane-to-sewer-systems)

is it dry and moistened ? (how did the EPA miss this ? )
Moist towelettes are a bane to sewer systems | Minnesota Public Radio News (http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/09/23/environment/moist-towelettes-are-a-bane-to-sewer-systems)

I would have thought that after the bus-sized fatberg (http://nypost.com/2013/08/06/londons-fatberg-15-ton-blob-of-congealed-fat-and-baby-wipes-cleared-from-city-sewer/) in London the EPA would have banned them.

In his comments, Francis denounced today’s “throw-away culture” that justifies disposing of lives, and said doctors in particular had been forced into situations where they are called to “not respect life.”

“Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord,” he said.

He urged the gynecologists to abide by their consciences and help bring lives into the world. “Things have a price and can be for sale, but people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things,” he said.

FORCED?? I think he wasn't talking about America, though I like his style in general.


It's come to this...

Venezuela orders temporary takeover of toilet paper factory | Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/21/us-venezuela-toiletpaper-idUSBRE98K00420130921)

Just think about the glorious possibilities of central planning our health care...

I am glad its just not OUR government you have hate for, but who would have thought toilet paper and diapers were subjects of speculation and price gouging.

I am glad its just not OUR government you have hate for, but who would have thought toilet paper and diapers were subjects of speculation and price gouging.

Who said I hate our government? I hate the overly intrusive, inefficient, wasteful, nannying bureaucracy it's become. It has overstepped its bounds and needs to be pared back before we are ruined.

But no I'm not a fan of Venezuela's, are you? I mean heck, you can't even get toilet paper - the inevitable consequence of central planning and price controls. But I get it, you guys are in love with the idea so much you think somehow you won't make the same mistakes that all those other failed socialist states made.

those other failed socialist states madeYou mean the ones that top the Happiness lists continuously?

You mean the ones that top the Happiness lists continuously?

Such as?

You mean the ones that top the Happiness lists continuously?

WHat list does China, Cuba, Russia, and the Ukraine top?

WHat list does China, Cuba, Russia, and the Ukraine top?

Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea? What was the happiness quotient in the former Soviet Union and East Germany?

The Happiest (And Saddest) Countries In The World - Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/01/09/the-worlds-happiest-and-saddest-countries-2/)

The slide show is what you want, and its interesting the level of unionation in the top countries. 50 to 88%.

Or:
Satisfaction with Life Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfaction_with_Life_Index)

What was the happiness quotient in the former Soviet Union and East Germany?I suggest some basic education on the differences between capitalism, socialism and communism.

The Happiest (And Saddest) Countries In The World - Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2013/01/09/the-worlds-happiest-and-saddest-countries-2/)

The slide show is what you want, and its interesting the level of unionation in the top countries. 50 to 88%.

Uh huh...


Though the good people at the Legatum Group (founded by New Zealand billionaire Christopher Chandler) are certainly making a good faith effort toward figuring out the key traits of successful societies, there are some areas where their data is unreliable.

Many of the inputs for the Index come from surveys of citizens in the countries. This is problematic because opinion polls are inherently subjective, and because of cultural and educational differences people in different countries may have starkly varying takes on the same circumstance.

For instance, one of the inputs for Legatum’s economic prosperity measure reflects whether citizens of a country “have confidence in financial institutions.” Last year only 48% of Americans reported being confident in financial institutions, versus 61% worldwide. It cannot be the case that America’s banks are less secure than the global average. And it’s silly to rely on subjective opinion for such a thing when there’s plentiful objective data on bank health (see Forbes Rankings of America’s Best and Worst Banks.)

Anyway, which of those that top the list are socialist countries with centrally planned economy and price controls such as Venezuela? That's the question.

I suggest some basic education on the differences between capitalism, socialism and communism.

Excuse me, but all those countries I mentioned have laid claim to being socialist countries. Look it up genius.

Communism - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/communism)

Socialism, like all the -ism, is a sliding scale. The USA is partly socialist but Sweden is more. The USSR and East Germany were aiming for communism.

Sweden has a capitalist economy, they don't control the price of toilet paper do they?

I really don't care what they do with their toilet paper, these things don't concern me.

When you want to bash Sweden and its tax burden and social programs you'll say it's a socialist country but when there's proof that it's doing well you'll say it's a capitalist economy. Odd that.

Uh huh...



Anyway, which of those that top the list are socialist countries with centrally planned economy and price controls such as Venezuela? That's the question.

I don't know about the labels you are trying to use but most countries in the world have a centrally planned economy, and some measure of price control mechanisms. That include China, Russia and the US. I think the difference you want is how they choose their government, and how much power the electorate really has in shaping the policy of government.

A closer examination on who the ruling class is would be a better marker than political labels. I mean you can call yourself anything and most dictators do. Be it one guy or by closed committee.

You have to admit the right wing noise machine in the US is a downer for happiness, and your hero Ted Cruz is the god of downer. His fellow repubs don't even like him. Hell his fellow Texas senator wishes he would shut the hell up. But you TParty types love holler, scream, gloom and doom.

I really don't care what they do with their toilet paper, these things don't concern me.

When you want to bash Sweden and its tax burden and social programs you'll say it's a socialist country but when there's proof that it's doing well you'll say it's a capitalist economy. Odd that.

Whatever dude, once again when you're idiocy is pointed out you deflect, try and walk it back and eventually attack with manufactured BS and insults. Grow up. In fact, AMHD needs to grow up and realize what a blight you are these discussions. Maybe I'll get my post deleted again for pointing out the hard truth about you.

Harry Reid keeps climbing up on his soapbox... ranting like someone with severe dementia... and the left chears him on...

I don't know about the labels you are trying to use but most countries in the world have a centrally planned economy, and some measure of price control mechanisms. That include China, Russia and the US. I think the difference you want is how they choose their government, and how much power the electorate really has in shaping the policy of government.

A closer examination on who the ruling class is would be a better marker than political labels. I mean you can call yourself anything and most dictators do. Be it one guy or by closed committee.

You have to admit the right wing noise machine in the US is a downer for happiness, and your hero Ted Cruz is the god of downer. His fellow repubs don't even like him. Hell his fellow Texas senator wishes he would shut the hell up. But you TParty types love holler, scream, gloom and doom.

Here's the plain question all of you want to avoid. How's it working out in Venezuela if they have to send troops in because the people can't buy toilet paper?

Whatever dude, once again when you're idiocy is pointed out you deflect, try and walk it back and eventually attack with manufactured BS and insults. Grow up. In fact, AMHD needs to grow up and realize what a blight you are these discussions. Maybe I'll get my post deleted again for pointing out the hard truth about you.Wow, you have issues. Typical christian.

Wow, you have issues. Typical christian.

And there again, another insult. There is nothing un-Christian about pointing out the truth. Jesus did not command us to be doormats, he called out the hypocrites on a regular basis.

I call you out. It's fun and not religion oriented. I use facts, but then you get personally insulted. This is a recurring theme. Xenu bless you.

Dude, they have a pill for your type of mental illness.

And the zero tolerance nonsense continues (http://www.wavy.com/news/local/va-beach/has-zero-tolerance-gone-too-far)...

Virginia Beach City Public School System has given long-term suspensions to two students for playing with an airsoft gun - in their own front yard. The boys "were recommended to be expelled for a year for "possession, handling and use of a firearm." They were ratted out by a neighbor in a 911 call.


A neighbor saw Khalid shooting the airsoft gun in his front yard. She told the dispatcher, "He is pointing the gun, and it looks like there's a target in a tree in his front yard".

WAVY.com located the 911 caller and spoke to her. She confirmed Khalid was taking target practice using a zombie hunter airsoft gun to kill the zombies. There was also a net behind the target to catch the plastic pellets.

What the heck is a public school doing disciplining students doing nothing wrong before school on their own property?

And the zero tolerance nonsense continues (http://www.wavy.com/news/local/va-beach/has-zero-tolerance-gone-too-far)...

Virginia Beach City Public School System has given long-term suspensions to two students for playing with an airsoft gun - in their own front yard. The boys "were recommended to be expelled for a year for "possession, handling and use of a firearm." They were ratted out by a neighbor in a 911 call.



What the heck is a public school doing disciplining students doing nothing wrong before school on their own property?

That is so far off the hook its sureal. It had nothing to do with the school yet they want to play daddy nanny state. Idiots!!

That is so far off the hook its sureal. It had nothing to do with the school yet they want to play daddy nanny state. Idiots !!!!!

And put a big mark on their school record. That's the way to encourage our youth to be successful, screw 'em over for having a little fun at home.

I will go further, its plain stupid to victimize kids this way.

I will go further, its plain stupid to victimize kids this way.

That rarity of rarities, we agree. :)

That is so far off the hook its sureal. It had nothing to do with the school yet they want to play daddy nanny state. Idiots !!!!!

I see a couple kids that are going to have their entire college program paid in full.

It's come to this...

The 'Peter Pan Syndrome' affects people who do not want or feel unable to grow up, people with the body of an adult but the mind of a child.
The syndrome is not currently considered a psychopathology, given the World Health Organization has not recognized it as a psychological disorder. However, an increasingly larger number of adults are presenting emotionally immature behaviors in Western society.

Well now in the UK...


Adolescence no longer ends when people hit 18, according to updated guidelines being given to child psychologists.

The new directive is designed to extend the age range that child psychologists can work with from 18 years old up to 25.
An adult at 18? Not any more: Adolescence now ends at 25 to prevent young people getting an inferiority complex | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2430573/An-adult-18-Not-Adolescence-ends-25-prevent-young-people-getting-inferiority-complex.html)

I guess this explains Obamacare providing coverage on parents plans until the age of 26 . If 25 is the new age of adulthood ,shouldn't things like the voting age eligibility be adjusted accordingly ?

If 25 is the new age of adulthood ,shouldn't things like the voting age eligibility be adjusted accordingly ?No because the article specifically refers to British child psychology guidelines to "extend the age range that child psychologists can work with from 18 years old up to 25". Nothing to do with the legal voting age or definition of adult.

It should go up along with the drinking age as well... and the age one is allowed to operate a motor vehicle should be adjusted upward accordingly.

It's come to this ......

The ‘Peter Pan Syndrome’ affects people who do not want or feel unable to grow up, people with the body of an adult but the mind of a child.
The syndrome is not currently considered a psychopathology, given the World Health Organization has not recognized it as a psychological disorder. However, an increasingly larger number of adults are presenting emotionally immature behaviors in Western society.

Well now in the UK ...


An adult at 18? Not any more: Adolescence now ends at 25 to prevent young people getting an inferiority complex | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2430573/An-adult-18-Not-Adolescence-ends-25-prevent-young-people-getting-inferiority-complex.html)

I guess this explains Obamacare providing coverage on parents plans until the age of 26 . If 25 is the new age of adulthood ,shouldn't things like the voting age eligibility be adjusted accordingly ?

Absolutely. I mean hey, if they're clueless about civics and take their parents on job interviews (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/11/parent-job-interview_n_3907447.html) they probably shouldn't be voting.

MHtDF-z77wk

If a kid is man enough to use a gun to defend his country, then he is man enough to vote and have a beer.

Go die to defend us but no beer, no car, no vote. Whaaaaa?! That's plain stupid.

If a kid is man enough to use a gun to defend his country, then he is man enough to vote and have a beer.

Go die to defend us but no beer, no car, no vote. Whaaaaa??!!!! That's plain stupid.

If a kid is old enough to fight for the country ,to drink ,to drive a car ,to vote ,then they are old enough to get their own health care coverage .

If a kid is man enough to use a gun to defend his country, then he is man enough to vote and have a beer.

Go die to defend us but no beer, no car, no vote. Whaaaaa??!!!! That's plain stupid.

Is sarcasm too difficult for you?

if a kid is old enough to fight for the country ,to drink ,to drive a car ,to vote ,then they are old enough to get their own health care coverage .

Exactly...

It's come to this... while the MIA anti-war movement seems rather nonplussed about Obama's war mongering, they're motivated by some CUNY professor to hound David Petraeus.

WATCH: College Students Chase David Petraeus and Shout at Him on First Day of Class (http://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-college-students-chase-david-petraeus-and-shout-at-him-on-first-day-of-class/)

Shouldn't this professor behind all of this be teaching or something instead of calling out his attack dog students to harass a man who served his country for 40 years?

if a kid is old enough to fight for the country ,to drink ,to drive a car ,to vote ,then they are old enough to get their own health care coverage .

Don't confuse age with economics.

Don't confuse age with economics.

We did it... they can too... they would have to make sacrifices just like we had to.


Perish the thought they would be inconvienienced in any way... their fragile ego's couldn't take it.

And now, in the type of rant that would have made any Republican fodder for all manner of ridicule and hate for days, a word from Pastor Charlie Rangel (http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/359312/rangel-youre-going-hell-if-you-dont-support-food-stamps-social-security-andrew-johnson). Jesus is apparently going to send you to Hell if you give people food stamps and Social Security.


“Anyone who is familiar with the Bible,” Rangel said, should know that “Jesus said you’re going to Hell if you don’t treat the lesser of his brothers and sisters” with compassion. Republican believers, he explained, will be assessed by a “higher authority” for attempting to thwart government programs that help the poor: “He said he was hungry, you didn’t give him food stamps … He was thirsty, you didn’t purify the water … he said he was naked, you didn’t give him Social Security.”

Of course those of us who do know the bible know Jesus never, ever, not once supported forcibly taking a third of your income from you to fund a corrupt, wasteful, inefficient government bureaucracy so they can dole it out to anyone they see fit, such as green tech companies, big oil, people who refuse to work or to force nuns to buy coverage that violates their faith. Or get sent to Hell. And let's not forget the irony of this coming from a tax cheat.

I wonder where one goes if they lie on their financial disclosure forms ,cheat on their taxes , and violate rent control laws ?
Rep. Charlie Rangel found guilty of 11 ethics violations (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/16/AR2010111604000.html)
http://nypost.com/2013/09/14/ens-and-rangels-political-club-fails-to-report-more-than-200g/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/nyregion/11rangel.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

I wonder where one goes if they lie on their financial disclosure forms ,cheat on their taxes , and violate rent control laws ?
Rep. Charlie Rangel found guilty of 11 ethics violations (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/16/AR2010111604000.html)
http://nypost.com/2013/09/14/ens-and-rangels-political-club-fails-to-report-more-than-200g/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/nyregion/11rangel.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

That's easy, Congress.

Instant: Rimshot (http://www.myinstants.com/instant/rimshot/)

Instant: Rimshot (http://www.myinstants.com/instant/rimshot/)

LOL, now that's handy.

It's come to this, we don't need Hillary for U.S. president, she should set her sights higher (http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/09/25/hillary-for-president-of-the-world.html) and become president of the universe!

She may have to settle for just POTUS.

She can start by polishing my shoes... thats about all she's proven she's qualified to do.

She can start by polishing my shoes...thats about all she's proven she's qualified to do.

You aren't qualified to polish her shoes. Maybe after you guys shut the government down and get furloughed. And you better not apply for food stamps either.

You aren't qualified to polish her shoes. Maybe after you guys shut the government down and get furloughed. And you better not apply for food stamps either.

I'm more qualified than she is... anything she's ever done has been an umitigated disaster...


Benghazi being the worst because 4 people died under her watch because she didn't care.

She may have to settle for just POTUS.

Right over your head...

She can start by polishing my shoes...thats about all she's proven she's qualified to do.

You have to polish your shoes? I though you had underlings for that, no the position of emperoress isn't open at the moment, could you imagine it, a leader with the attitude what difference does it make an real Marie Antonette character

you have to polish your shoes? I though you had underlings for that, no the position of emperoress isn't open at the moment, could you imagine it, a leader with the attitude what difference does it make an real Marie Antonette character

Actually my shoes are the kind you don't polish... I never got my 20+ person personal servants like Moochele has at taxpayer expense...

Besides I prefer to wipe my own butt...

Actually my shoes are the kind you don't polish....I never got my 20+ person personal servants like Moochele has at taxpayer expense...

Besides I prefer to wipe my own butt....

You have to wipe your own butt? What a come down and I though you were a wheel somewhere, but no just a cog or a clog

You have to wipe your own butt? what a come down and I though you were a wheel somewhere, but no just a cog or a clog

Even if I turn out to be heir to the throne someplace... I'd still rather wipe my own butt...

And if I was... do you think I'd be hanging out here?

Even if I turn out to be heir to the throne someplace....I'd still rather wipe my own butt....

And if I was...do you think I'd be hanging out here?

Seriously I don't know why any of us are hanging out here, got to go and do something useful now I try to do that at least once a day

seriously I don't know why any of us are hanging out here, got to go and do something useful now I try to do that at least once a day

I did that earlier today when I was at work... I'm just watching TV at home right now. Got a busy weekend if a shipment shows up by Friday.

I did that earlier today when I was at work.....I'm just watching tv at home right now. Got a busy weekend if a shipment shows up by friday.

Doing a little local distribution then?

doing a little local distribution then?

Nope... not much rural remote places anywhere near where I live. Unfortunately. But creative landscaping on my slice of property makes it look a lot more remote than it really is...

Nope....not much rural remote places anywhere near where I live. Unfortunately. But creative landscaping on my slice of property makes it look a lot more remote than it really is...

Yes I understand creative landscaping, screen trees, do a little of it myself

yes i understand creative landscaping, screen trees, do a little of it myself

Works well enough I practically have a wildlife preserve in my back yard, as small as it is... I have them fooled too. It would be a rare day I couldn't walk through my back yard almost any time of the day without spooking at least one deer.

When you consider my entire property is a little under 1,350 square meters. And I'm smack in the middle of a fully developed city with no undeveloped land for miles.

It's come to this...


‘America’s Safest Car’ Ablaze After Fire Starts in Battery Pack (http://business.time.com/2013/10/03/americas-safest-car-ablaze-after-fire-starts-in-battery-pack/#ixzz2gfx4H4Nm)
Tesla stock dives amid new worries about lithium-ion safety

A Tesla Model S electric car, touted as the safest car in America, caught fire on Tuesday, spurring new worries about the possible risks of lithium-ion batteries. In two recent incidents, involving Boeing’s new 787 plane and Chevrolet’s Volt hybrid car, fires have emanated from batteries of the same type.

Tesla spokeswoman Liz Jarvis-Shean said the fire was caused by a large metallic object hitting the battery pack, and pointed out that no one was injured. Company shares still dropped by more than 6 percent, following the appearance on the Internet of a video showing flames spewing out of the vehicle (mild profanity heard).

Pinto!

It's come to this...

Was that metallic object a parked FedEx truck?

And yet another.

Yahoo Shine - Women's Lifestyle | Healthy Living and Fashion Blogs (http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/-two-boys-suspended-for-pointing-pencils-like-guns-165811733.html)

And yet another.

Yahoo Shine - Women's Lifestyle | Healthy Living and Fashion Blogs (http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/-two-boys-suspended-for-pointing-pencils-like-guns-165811733.html)

There are dills everywhere

It's come to this, the Swiss gathered enough signatures to put a referendum up for vote to guarantee a minimum income from the Swiss the government to every Swiss adult (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-swiss-pay-idUSBRE9930O620131004).


Switzerland will hold a vote on whether to introduce a basic income for all adults, in a further sign of growing public activism over pay inequality since the financial crisis.

A grassroots committee is calling for all adults in Switzerland to receive an unconditional income of 2,500 Swiss francs ($2,800) per month from the state, with the aim of providing a financial safety net for the population.

Organizers submitted more than the 100,000 signatures needed to call a referendum on Friday and tipped a truckload of 8 million five-rappen coins outside the parliament building in Berne, one for each person living in Switzerland.

Under Swiss law, citizens can organize popular initiatives that allow the channeling of public anger into direct political action. The country usually holds several referenda a year.

Not only that, they want to restrict executive pay to no more than the lowest paid staff.


In March, Swiss voters backed some of the world's strictest controls on executive pay, forcing public companies to give shareholders a binding vote on compensation.

A separate proposal to limit monthly executive pay to no more than what the company's lowest-paid staff earn in a year, the so-called 1:12 initiative, faces a popular vote on November 24.

The initiative's organizing committee said the basic income could partly be financed through money from social insurance systems in Switzerland.

The timing of the vote has yet to be announced, pending official guidance from the government

I look for that to be on the agenda here, soon, probably beginning in Kalifornia. Apparently it's all the rage (http://www.renewal.org.uk/articles/interview-the-politics-of-predistribution/) now and those countries who refuse to adopt such "predistribution" standards will be the "free riders," not all those fine citizens getting everything for nothing.

As the Russians used to say... 'they pretend to pay me ,and I pretend to work'.

Time's photo of the day (https://twitter.com/TIME/status/387311374528827392/photo/1)...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BWABpJdCIAArE2X.jpg

What's your issue with that photo?

For me it's Kerry's botched botox job.

Wow, it's doesn't get more petty than that.

It's come to this, the Swiss gathered enough signatures to put a referendum up for vote to guarantee a minimum income from the Swiss the government to every Swiss adult (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/04/us-swiss-pay-idUSBRE9930O620131004).



Not only that, they want to restrict executive pay to no more than the lowest paid staff.



I look for that to be on the agenda here, soon, probably beginning in Kalifornia. Apparently it's all the rage (http://www.renewal.org.uk/articles/interview-the-politics-of-predistribution/) now and those countries who refuse to adopt such "predistribution" standards will be the "free riders," not all those fine citizens getting everything for nothing.


Finally it has come to this. I've been waiting for this for a long time.

What an excellent idea. Should be more of it.

They are not actually saying that executive pay should be the same as the lowest paid worker. What they are saying is there should be a 12 to 1 ratio.

Wow, it's doesn't get more petty than that.

Thing is... I can't decide if he looks better in a puffed out botox face or the stone face he used to have .

http://slimcelebrity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/John-Kerry-Plastic-Surgery-Before-and-After-Photos-Botox-Face-Lift-Facial-fillers-Brow-Lift-and-Nose-job-3.jpg

He used to look like the old man of the mountain. His face had character

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/12/Separated-at-Birth-John-Kerry-and-the-Old-Man-of-the-Mountain/_jcr_content/par/cn_contentwell/par-main/cn_blogpost/cn_float_container/cn_image.size.kerrymountain.jpg

Clearly he's getting ready for another run at the White House .

You have way too much free time. Get outside and meet people.

Hello again, tom:

The epitome of smoothy's political commentary, is accusing Michell Obama of having a fat a$$. Do you REALLY want be part of that club??

excon

Hello again, tom:

The epitome of smoothy's political commentary, is accusing Michell Obama of having a fat a$$. Do you REALLY want be part of that club???

excon

Have you actually SEEN Michell Obamas Butt? Its more than twice as wide as her shoulders... that qualifies as a fat rump in anyone's book... and some guys might like that... I'm just not one of them.

And my comments unlike most other peoples here... isn't based on propaganda you get from some liiar on TV with an agenda... most of the AMerican public have no idea how often they are flat out lied to by so-called journalists. And lies go beyond simply being mislead.

Hello again, tom:

The epitome of smoothy's political commentary, is accusing Michell Obama of having a fat a$$. Do you REALLY want be part of that club???

excon

It's called humor

it's called humorSee smoothy's post above your, he's not joking.

Have you actually SEEN Michell Obamas Butt? its more than twice as wide as her shoulders....that qualifies as a fat rump in anyones book.....and some guys might like that....I'm just not one of them.

And my comments unlike most other peoples here....isn't based on propaganda you get from some liiar on tv with an agenda...most of the AMerican public have no idea how often they are flat out lied to by so-called journalists. And lies go beyond simply being mislead.

Like Limbaugh, Hannity, and Fox News!

See smoothy's post above your, he's not joking.

Any your point is ? Bring it up with smoothy .

Wow, it's doesn't get more petty than that.

Time is the one that made it their photo of the day, b*tch at them - some of us just like to enjoy a laugh at the expense of Lurch.

Like Limbaugh, Hannity, and Fox News!

Do you grasp that Limbaugh and Hannity don't even claim to be reporters... they are Commentators...

As as far as FOX News... they at least make an effort at presenting facts... unlike all the rest... who do nothing but repeat leftist propaganda with no basis in fact.

enjoy a laugh at the expense ofYea, that.

Do you grasp that Limbaugh and Hannity don't even claim to be reporters...they are Commentators.....

As as far as FOX News....they at least make an effort at presenting facts....unlike all the rest...who do nothing but repeat leftist propaganda with no basis in fact.

Now I see your problem. Like Fox News, you have no clue what facts are. But you love regurgitated right wing talking points, that are mirrored by your loony "commentators".

Like I keep saying, hollering, and squealing. No substitute for articulating facts. I understand though, we have our own loonys that are as fringe as you and yours. Not so loud or influential either.

Yea, that.

I can't help it if Canadians have no sense of humor. Don't be so anal.

Now I see your problem. Like Fox News, you have no clue what facts are. But you love regurgitated right wing talking points, that are mirrored by your loony "commentators".

Like I keep saying, hollering, and squealing. No substitute for articulating facts. I understand though, we have our own loonys that are as fringe as you and yours. Not so loud or influential either.

Really... exactly where do you get YOUR facts from.. do they come to you in dreams, while smoking pot in a closet? Of the TV or Radio where you only hear what some editor dictates what you will be told? Do you just slaughter stray cats and "read" the entrails?

Unlike you and most of the lefties that blindly follow the party propaganda... because none of you are close enough to anything to hear it anywhere but filtered through someone else's bias, I actually see a lot of the unfiltered stuff... the news feeds that go to the news offices before they start cutting out the parts that don't follow the Party propaganda.

And unlike you... I've seen such a high percentage of this I at least have a real reson to doubt any of the stuff I don't is any more accurate.But rest assured in your smugness that your handlers are laughing about how easy it is to sucker people into believing whatever they are told to believe.

If you were told by Obama he has been visted by Purple three eyed Aliens from Neptune... you would believe every word of it.

Like I keep saying, hollering, and squealing. No substitute for articulating facts. I understand though, we have our own loonys that are as fringe as you and yours. Not so loud or influential either.

Yep you do, and they seem to be at the very top of the political chain. How is it they can leave one website open during the shutdown like this one of Michael's and take down another of greater need?

Let's Move! (http://www.letsmove.gov/)


Why was this shut down instead of the other?

Amber Alert Website Offline Due To Shutdown - But It Doesn't Affect Amber Alert Systems (UPDATE) (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/07/amber-alert-shutdown-still-operational_n_4056994.html)

Yep you do, and they seem to be at the very top of the political chain. How is it they can leave one website open during the shutdown like this one of Michael's and take down another of greater need?

Let's Move! (http://www.letsmove.gov/)


Why was this shut down instead of the other?

Amber Alert Website Offline Due To Shutdown - But It Doesn't Affect Amber Alert Systems (UPDATE) (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/07/amber-alert-shutdown-still-operational_n_4056994.html)

And Michelle had to limit the posts on her free Twitter account, poor thing.

And then, Obama has a presser today and not one question about the Obamacare clusterfark... and it's Republicans' fault the media didn't ask. This world is warped, everything's bass ackwards.

No healthcare questions at Obama presser - POLITICO.com (http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/10/no-healthcare-questions-at-obama-presser-174562.html)

Jon Stewart (http://www.mediaite.com/tv/stewart-grills-sebelius-on-obamacare-level-of-incompetence-thats-larger-than-what-it-should-be/) asked tougher questions than the mainstream media.

That was close, the Postal Service has saved our children from dangerous stamps (http://news.yahoo.com/usps-to-destroy--unsafe--stamps-205228348.html).


Run! Jump! Leap! It all seems pretty innocent, but the U.S. Postal Service is faced with a decision to destroy its series of "Just Move" stamps because of safety concerns, according to Linns Stamp News, and we're not talking about a paper cut on your tongue.

The colorful cartoon stamps, based on Michelle Obama's Let's Move initiative, were intended to encourage an active lifestyle and raise awareness about physical activity. But the images on some of the stamps are not kosher with the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition, according to the stamps designer, Eli Noyes, who told Linns, "Apparently the President’s Council [on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition] and the Let’s Move people saw them and had issues with them."

The stamps in question: a skateboarder sans kneepads, a swimmer doing a cannonball, and a kid doing a headstand without a helmet, and because of these issues, it's likely you won't ever get to send your mail with these particular adhesives.

A spokesman at the USPS told Yahoo the stamps are sitting at a printer in upstate New York, awaiting a decision on their fate.

http://uspsstampsblogs.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/block-of-15.jpg?w=584&h=558

Whew, thank goodness we won't be giving kids any ideas about being kids. I would have had more of an issue with a kid at bat without a batting helmet than doing a cannonball though.

When she thinks of 'Lets Move ' ,this is more like she has in mind...
This is how Chinese high school trains their students - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr0FXrib6tc)

It's come to this, so many people are inserting body parts into appliances and machinery of some sort and need assistance that London firefighters have started an ad campaign to discourage this practice.


London Fire Brigade        ✔ @LondonFireTop tip from us today: don’t put your penis in a toaster. Read our most unusual incidents here: London Fire Brigade - Number of people trapped in objects like handcuffs and toilet seat rises (http://bit.ly/12wXndi ) #FiftyShadesofRed

Letterman expanded on the issue...

jjcHaXnBcdM

Great balls of fire !

What's the point of this "It's come to this" thread? How idiotic americans are? There seems to be no end to material for this thread since you post multiple entries every day.

It comes to this...

Need proof that Bonehead is lying about having the votes to pass a clean CR? He changed the rules of order to stop the democrats from bringing it to the floor of the house.

Pelosi Floor Speech Calling on House Republicans to Take (http://www.democraticleader.gov/Pelosi_Floor_Speech_Calling_on_House_GOP_to_Bring_ Clean_Senate_CR)

House Democrats sign discharge petition - Ginger Gibson - POLITICO.com (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/house-democrats-sign-discharge-petition-government-shutdown-debt-ceiling-98219.html)

Why John Boehner Won't Hold a Vote to Reopen the Government - Businessweek (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-02/why-john-boehner-wont-hold-a-vote-to-reopen-the-government)


The simplest way for the Republican Party to broaden its appeal might be the same as the way out of the shutdown. Let the Tea Party Caucus be the Tea Party Caucus. That's what its members were democratically elected to do. But don't allow them to run the place simply because they wave the Hastert Rule. The party itself is already less homogenous than it was not long ago. Such party discipline clearly isn't possible; it might not even be necessary. If Republicans let their party structure in Congress become weaker, they may find it not only easier to get things done, but easier to get a lot more Republicans elected.

America blames repubs more than the prez for this shutdown 53-31. So far.

There seems to be no end to material for this thread since you post multiple entries every day.

Yes, perhaps more quality and less quantity.

I don't think quantity is an issue, there seems to be an endless supply.

I don't think quantity is an issue, there seems to be an endless supply.

Some are very interesting and worth discussing. Others, well...

Here's a guideline. If the subject is interesting to you feel free to comment . If not ,feel free to ignore.

here's a guideline. If the subject is interesting to you feel free to comment . If not ,feel free to ignore.

You do know this thread is fast reaching its useby date and comments like that just hasten the day

So ? Then Speechless will have a choice to open a new op or not . Oooops there I go again hastening the thread's demise.

Hello again,

Well, for MY part, it's come to this, can come to an end.

excon

It comes to this,

Truckers Ride For The Constitution: Extremist Anti-Obama Protesters Hijack Truck Drivers As Political Pawns (http://www.ibtimes.com/truckers-ride-constitution-extremist-anti-obama-protesters-hijack-truck-drivers-political-pawns)


So far it all sounds like good old-fashioned civil disobedience, except that the trucker protest itself has little to do with the trucking industry and even less to do with healthy dissent. Beneath all the talk of hard-working truck drivers fed up with government overreach lies a fringe movement of blind civil unrest, one fueled by a small group of angry white people who will simply never accept Barack Obama as president.

Traffic Shutdown? Truck drivers plan 3-day protest on Capital Beltway | Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/08/traffic-shutdown-truck-drivers-plan-3-day-protest-on-capital-beltway/)


Asked to clarify the purpose of the event, spokesman Peter Santilli told FoxNews.com on Tuesday: "One of our demands is NON-NEGOTIABLE: President Obama must be removed from office for crimes against the United States and all unconstitutional executive orders nullified. How that is accomplished legally is for the legal and constitutional experts to determine."

Copy that good budy.

What's the point of this "It's come to this" thread? How idiotic americans are? There seems to be no end to material for this thread since you post multiple entries every day.

If you didn't notice, the last one was about Brits who are idiots. But of course I'm not surprised you don't get the point of the thread and like tom said, if it interests you fine, if not why are you here?

Hello again,

Well, for MY part, it's come to this, can come to an end.

excon

Party pooper.

It comes to this,

Truckers Ride For The Constitution: Extremist Anti-Obama Protesters Hijack Truck Drivers As Political Pawns (http://www.ibtimes.com/truckers-ride-constitution-extremist-anti-obama-protesters-hijack-truck-drivers-political-pawns)



Traffic Shutdown? Truck drivers plan 3-day protest on Capital Beltway | Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/08/traffic-shutdown-truck-drivers-plan-3-day-protest-on-capital-beltway/)



Copy that gud budy.

What, truckers don't have a right to express themselves? After all , you don't get much stuff without truckers so I think I'd respect their opinions a little more.

What's more outrageous though is that thanks to the emperor's intentional games here is that this was necessary.

Rally at World War II Memorial Ends at White House | NBC4 Washington (http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Vets-Plan-Rally-at-World-War-II-Memorial-227574101.html)

Oh come on! You keep thinking the actions of a few loony's means everybody is buying the TParty line. They ain't and most truckers will be doing their job and have been disavowing the fringe already.

Your message of destruction and disruption will fail because nobody but YOU guys believe your BS.

Oh come on! You keep thinking the actions of a few loony's means everybody is buying the TParty line. They ain't and most truckers will be doing their job and have been disavowing the fringe already.

Your message of destruction and disruption will fail because nobody but YOU guys believe your BS.

So, our veterans are loony? Wow.

So, our veterans are loony? Wow.You think US veterans are a$$holes? That's nasty.

So, our veterans are loony? Wow.

Just the TParty ones.

You think US veterans are a$$holes? That's nasty.

There goes your obsession again. By the way, learn how to read - you're the only idiot on the planet that could come to that conclusion.

Just the TParty ones.

So they haven't earned the right to their views?

you're the only idiot on the planetYou and tom, cut from the same cloth - insults all 'round.

Two can play at your game of putting words in people's mouths.

I can't believe you follow me all over this board to insult me.

It comes to this,

State and Local Budget Woes Impacting School Nurse Jobs - NurseZone (http://www.nursezone.com/Nursing-News-Events/more-news/State-and-Local-Budget-Woes-Impacting-School-Nurse-Jobs_36454.aspx)

And leads to this.

Family points to school nurse shortage in death - CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500172_162-20079425.html)

Give us more Right Wing BS about caring for the babies.

You and tom, cut from the same cloth - insults all 'round.

Two can play at your game of putting words in people's mouths.

I can't believe you follow me all over this board to insult me.

I can't believe you're still here, but as long as you are expect to get ridiculed when you make an a$$ of yourself.

It comes to this,

State and Local Budget Woes Impacting School Nurse Jobs - NurseZone (http://www.nursezone.com/Nursing-News-Events/more-news/State-and-Local-Budget-Woes-Impacting-School-Nurse-Jobs_36454.aspx)

and leads to this.

Family points to school nurse shortage in death - CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500172_162-20079425.html)

Give us more Right Wing BS about caring for the babies.

That's from two years ago and the most help I ever got from a school nurse was "do you need a pan to upchuck in?"

but as long as you are expect to get ridiculed when you make an a$$ of yourself.Jus' messin' with you, have a sense of humour. :-)

Have a great day, going to go hang with my kids now.

Girl, 12, dies of an asthma attack because there was no nurse | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2456311/Girl-12-dies-asthma-attack-nurse.html)


After the first budget and staffing cuts, one nurse warned the school that teachers were not qualified to help asthmatic students in her absence.

'Without the school nurse, at a minimum, persistent errors in judgment will result in a child getting a substandard education,' says school nurse Eileen Duffey. 'In worst-case scenarios, life-threatening conditions may surface while a child is in school and go unnoticed.'

You want up to date, I got up to date. The fact that its been swept under the rug for two years should outrage you "take care of the babies" crowd. Unfortunately it's the tipoff the iceberg of right wing lies and BS.

Girl, 12, dies of an asthma attack because there was no nurse | Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2456311/Girl-12-dies-asthma-attack-nurse.html)



You want up to date, I got up to date. The fact that its been swept under the rug for two years should outrage you "take care of the babies" crowd. Unfortunately its the tipoff the iceberg of right wing lies and BS.

I didn't cut PA's budget and I'm all for school nurses, as long as they're allowed to do their job and do it right and schools (typically run by libs you know) drop their own ridiculous policies.

Nurse refuses student inhaler during asthma attack | News - Home (http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Nurse-refuses-student-inhaler-during-asthma-attack/-/1637132/13560430/-/wm13uaz/-/index.html)

Bill to let pupils with asthma self-medicate (http://old.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20000928asthma6.asp)

I'm certain for every outrage you come up with in your manufactured war here I can come up with at least as many incidents and policies to counter, but what's silly is you're trying to take a tragedy we would both agree on and make it my fault. Sorry, it doesn't work that way my friend.

P.S. If there wasn't an adult smart enough to recognize this poor child needed assistance then they have bigger problems to address.

Nurse refuses student inhaler during asthma attack | News - Home (http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Nurse-refuses-student-inhaler-during-asthma-attack/-/1637132/13560430/-/wm13uaz/-/index.html)

Assuming its dems without proof?

Bill to let pupils with asthma self-medicate (http://old.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20000928asthma6.asp)


]"This is a no-brainer," said the bill's sponsor, state Rep. Lita Indzel Cohen, D-Conshohocken. "This is just good for kids. And that's what we're all about."[/B]
Cohen, who drafted the measure a year ago in response to a constituent complaint in her suburban Philadelphia legislative district, said many school districts across the state had refused to allow students to take asthma medication on their own, fearing that would open the door to lawsuits in the event of a medical mishap.

Enough of this blame the liberals BS.

Just the TParty ones.

I get it, you watched CNN.

CNN Mocks Million Vet March as Tea Party Crazies (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/10/13/CNN-derides-million-vet-march)

Yeah, these guys look like real crazies.

http://cdn.breitbart.com/mediaserver/Breitbart/Big-Journalism/2013/10/12/veteran-march-ap.jpg

Nurse refuses student inhaler during asthma attack | News - Home (http://www.clickorlando.com/news/Nurse-refuses-student-inhaler-during-asthma-attack/-/1637132/13560430/-/wm13uaz/-/index.html)

Assuming its dems without proof?

I made no such assumption, expressed or implied. What part of this is "a tragedy we would both agree on" do you not get? The only one blaming the other side is you.


"Give us more Right Wing BS about caring for the babies."

"The fact that its been swept under the rug for two years should outrage you "take care of the babies" crowd. Unfortunately its the tipoff the iceberg of right wing lies and BS."

And while we're at it, the Gov Nixon in your article that cut $5 million for school nurse salaries? Democrat. California? Hardly an experiment in conservatism. And in conservative Amarillo where our property taxes provide most school funding is not short on school nurses, so point your outrage elsewhere bucko.

So, our veterans are loony? Wow.

The answer to your question had already been posted above. The answer provided is obviously, "no" . The term "all" was never used by Tal. He used the term,"few".

The answer to your question had already been posted above. The answer provided is obviously, "no" . The term "all" was never used by Tal. He used the term,"few".

Thanks, Tut, he also clarified "Just the TParty ones," a connection made by CNN - and I'm sure most of those vets don't appreciate - nor do they deserve to be dismissed as they have been during the shutdown theater.

P.S. I never blamed Democrats for a school nurse shortage as he suggested, or that "US veterans are a$$holes" as NK suggested either. But thanks for keeping us all accountable.

This (http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/10/13/north-andover-high-punishes-teen-for-giving-drunken-pal-ride-home-from-party/) is the real point of "It's come to this," a student who has had too much called a friend to come and pick her up... and the designated driver friend who went to her aid was suspended for five volleyball games in her senior year and demoted from team captain because of those darn "zero tolerance" policies.


NORTH ANDOVER (CBS) — It’s tough for Eleanor Cox to talk about how heartbroken her daughter Erin is over the punishment she received for doing what she thought was right.

“She’s very fragile and I’m worried about her. Very worried about her. She didn’t do anything wrong,” Cox told WBZ-TV on Sunday.

Two weeks ago, Erin received a call from a friend at a party who was too drunk to drive. Erin drove to Boxford after work to pick up her friend. Moments after she arrived, the cops arrived too and busted several kids for underage possession of alcohol.

A North Andover High School honor student, Erin was cleared by police, who agreed she had not been drinking and was not in possession of alcohol. But Andover High told Erin she was in violation of the district’s zero tolerance policy against alcohol and drug use. In the middle of her senior year, Erin was demoted from captain of the volleyball team and told she would be suspended from playing for five games.

“If a kid asks for help from a friend, you don’t want that kid to say ‘I’m sorry I can’t help you. I might end up in trouble at school,’” said attorney Wendy Murphy, who is trying to help the Cox family get the school’s decision reversed.

In my opinion, doing the right thing by making sure your friend gets home safely is exactly the type of thing team captains are made of.

Good thing she wasn't eating pop tarts.

Dumb a$$ school officials.

Dumb a$$ school officials.

Greenie !