Wingnuts seem to love this joke; it’s always a special moment when the leading lights of the online conservative movement go into Sexually Frustrated Adolescent Idiot Boy mode.
From Breitbart.com’s Ben Shapiro and Media Research Center weirdo Brent Bozell:
Remember when Anderson Cooper thought “teabagging” was hysterical? No comment.
But, but it's both sides of politics that do this. You remember all the left-wing blogs that made teabagging jokes when a Republican was forced to come out (mostly because they were arrested in some bus stop).
Jay Nordlinger:
"The first big day for this movement was Tax Day, April 15. And organizers had a gimmick. They asked people to send a tea bag to the Oval Office. One of the exhortations was "Tea Bag the Fools in D.C." A protester was spotted with a sign saying, "Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You." So, conservatives started it: started with this terminology. But others ran with it and ran with it."
But, but it's both sides of politics that do this. You remember all the left-wing blogs that made teabagging jokes when a Republican was forced to come out (mostly because they were arrested in some bus stop).
Crickets..Crickets..Crickets..
Well to be fair, I laughed and laughed about the whole Senator Larry Craig saga...but that had everything to do with the hypocrisy of someone who had a strong anti-LGBT voting record pleading guilty to public mens room hijinx, and nothing to do with hatred of homosexuals.
Well to be fair, I laughed and laughed about the whole Senator Larry Craig saga...but that had everything to do with the hypocrisy of someone who had a strong anti-LGBT voting record pleading guilty to public mens room hijinx, and nothing to do with hatred of homosexuals.
Wasn't there some study not so long ago that said being fiercely anti-gay can be a strong indicator that you may be in the closet? (Not that a lot of people didn't already believe this anyway...)
i can't muster even a modicum of "give a shit" about this news. everybody knew anderson was gay. are the wingers already tired of predicting marxist obummercare destruction? how do they keep this crap up?
Gates and Ballmer aren't the only high-profile members of the technology community to make significant contributions for marriage equality. Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook and the editor-in-chief of the New Republic, promised Mainers United for Marriage that if the campaign raised more than $100,000, he and his now husband, Sean Eldridge, would match the donation, according to the Bangor Daily News. Mainers United for Marriage announced last month that it had raised more than $120,000.
Attributing his newfound skepticism of the right to a close reading of German philosophy, he’s now leaning toward supporting Barack Obama, backs the Affordable Care Act and has moved left on social issues like gay marriage.
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The irrelevant man-child Ben Shapiro has a sad:
Jonathan Krohn turns 17, realizes he hasn't been relevant in 3 years, goes lib. We're looking at a young David Brock.
But, but it's both sides of politics that do this. You remember all the left-wing blogs that made teabagging jokes when a Republican was forced to come out (mostly because they were arrested in some bus stop).
Crickets..Crickets..Crickets..
The right is only interested in teabagging when they have to pay for it.
It's funny how even something as benign as Anderson Cooper coming out (officially or otherwise) would get the right-wingers to throw yet another temper tantrum.
It's funny how even something as benign as Anderson Cooper coming out (officially or otherwise) would get the right-wingers to throw yet another temper tantrum.
I almost think right-wingers are looking for an excuse to throw a temper tantrum.
But I’m always hesitant to even bring up this abortion shit because I know what will happen. Some right winger will seize it as an opportunity to show that they are really the true friends of cripples. If they were in charge, we wouldn’t have to worry about being aborted. They would tenaciously defend our right to be born.
They’re right about that. No doubt they would guard every crippled fetus like a junkyard dog, right up until the second they are born. After that, you’re on your own, Maxwell. That’s the American way.
Really hope they don't do that. If they do, the new Obama/Dem campaigners will spend the next election cycle shoving it up their asses. They're actually getting pretty good.
[Attorney General] Abbott said he will work with Congress to attempt to have the law repealed, and that the state will explore “all possible avenues” to further litigation against "Obamacare." But he said it is hard to tell what aspects of the law that litigation might target.
That should do wonders for their economies in the long term. The law should just be administered so that the overall fund level is fluid, at least for the first three years of 100% federal coverage. So that money that would otherwise have gone to non participating states gets redirected to participating states.
"Excuse me, but if you're not going to eat that ..."
I think they will fold; too many of these kinds of stories are coming out now in the local press:
The nation's health law has already improved the lives of millions of Texans. More than 7.5 million Texans, including more than 3 million children, have directly benefited from the law since 2010.
The law also helps protect healthcare for over 3 million Texas children who rely on the cost-effective Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program for coverage.
[Link: www.star-telegram.com...]
"I kind of feel like I'm watching that old movie `The Godfather' and the American people looked the Godfather in the face and he said, `I'm going to make you an offer you can't refuse.,"' Perry said. "And that offer is, `you're going to buy my insurance, and if you don't, I'm going to tax you.' That is just unconscionable." [Link: abclocal.go.com...]
The problem is that I am, to use a term Eric F. explained to me, happysad. I am happy because the healthcare plan that I myself proposed, endorsed, implemented, and repeatedly endorsed again has received approval from the highest court in the land, which means it was good. But I am sad because that approval was technically granted to another version of that plan, one endorsed by Democrats, which means it is now bad. Trying to draw the line between the two—which plan is good, and which plan is bad—continues to be quite difficult. It seems reporter units are not entirely satisfied with the simple notion that the bad one is the one my opponent did, because he is my opponent and he is bad. I instructed my staff to explain to them further that my plan was good because I am not my opponent, and since he is bad I must by definition be good, but they reported back with unsatisfactory results. While we sort this out, we have largely decided to not say things anymore, on any subject.
Yeah. It's pretty lame. Was that in the 80s? Kind of fitting for the time as the official 2012 GOP campaign slogan: "I want what I want when I want it." Wah!!!
Is there a word for when someone comes out of the closet, but nobody knew they were in the closet to begin with? I mean in the sense that everyone already knew they were gay.
Bozell is serial killer creepy. Fortunately, he's so hilariously stupid that he gives Dim Hoft a run for his money. I've written a few pages mocking his breathtaking idiocy for anyone who enjoys laughing at imbeciles. Here's the latest.
Is there a word for when someone comes out of the closet, but nobody knew they were in the closet to begin with? I mean in the sense that everyone already knew they were gay.
I have to admit, I have wondered whether it is a relief to announce "I'm Gay!" only to have everyone say, "Um, okay," and get on with things, or a disappointment.
I have to admit, I have wondered whether it is a relief to announce "I'm Gay!" only to have everyone say, "Um, okay," and get on with things, or a disappointment.
I have to admit, I have wondered whether it is a relief to announce "I'm Gay!" only to have everyone say, "Um, okay," and get on with things, or a disappointment.
It would only be kind to allow her a restraining order against publishing that photo again.
Everyone who lived through the 70's has one of these photos.
You know: If you remember the 60's you didn't really experience it? Well, if you have no embarrassing polyester plaid photos from the 70's, you didn't really experience it.
It would only be kind to allow her a restraining order against publishing that photo again.
Everyone who lived through the 70's has one of these photos.
You know: If you remember the 60's you didn't really experience it? Well, if you have no embarrassing polyester plaid photos from the 70's, you didn't really experience it.
The 70's were the decade of plastic (nearly PVC-type) clothing.
It would only be kind to allow her a restraining order against publishing that photo again.
Everyone who lived through the 70's has one of these photos.
You know: If you remember the 60's you didn't really experience it? Well, if you have no embarrassing polyester plaid photos from the 70's, you didn't really experience it.
Yeah. We didn't think anything of it at the time. We thought it looked cool. I had several flannel looking pants. I settled into flannel shirts, jeans, and work or hiking boots. Blame Marshall Tucker, New Riders, Allman Bros, and even John Denver for that phase. ;) Oh. And you always had to roll up the sleeves on the flannel shirts.
Yeah. We didn't think anything of it at the time. We thought it looked cool. I had several flannel looking pants. I settled into flannel shirts, jeans, and work or hiking boots. Blame Marshall Tucker, New Riders, Allman Bros, and even John Denver for that phase. ;) Oh. And you always had to roll up the sleeves on the flannel shirts.
It was a real big thing that you could wash and dry the clothing in the machine and then wear it. No ironing, no dry cleaners.
It would only be kind to allow her a restraining order against publishing that photo again.
Everyone who lived through the 70's has one of these photos.
You know: If you remember the 60's you didn't really experience it? Well, if you have no embarrassing polyester plaid photos from the 70's, you didn't really experience it.
So that's how I explain the brown corduroy 3 piece suit I had my senior picture taken in? Bad enough that fugly can't begin to cover it...
My high school pictures from the 70's were great for my weird way of meeting the catholic school dress code. I had one tie I liked to wear that I called my "Horse Ass" tie. It was a line of polo horses and riders crossing diagonally across the tie, all facing backwards. Just polo guy backs (with those cool white helmet/hats on) and horses asses across the tie. I liked that one. Native American print sleeveless V-neck sweater so I wouldn't have to wear a tie. Ties so wide you could use them as a tablecloth (with bell bottoms to match, corduroy no less)
Actually, its gone grey since he's been in prison. But it does turn out that that helmet of hair really is his hair. Unlike Donald Trump, Blago did not have a hairpiece.
Twitter late Monday afternoon released its first-ever ”transparency report,” a collection of statistics highlighting the times in the past six months that Twitter has been asked by governments and law enforcement agencies around the world to hand over user information or take down content.
The U.S. leads the world in requests for Twitter user info, with 679 requests pertaining to 948 accounts, of which Twitter complied with 75 percent, according to the report.
Remember that talking point that Republicans are trotting out claiming that the Affordable Care Act (aka"Obamacare") healthcare reforms include "the largest tax increase in the history of the world"?
Tonight film deal with proper use of the ejection seat in both combat and peacetime conditions. Those of you assigned to SAC and MAC can sit this one out.
If I didn't like you so much, I would have downdinged.
Besides, I'm an old lady, I like my wrinkles! Clothing ones too!
That is not my philosophy, it is my 80 yo mother's. I could care less --She and her sisters have some wierd ideas about clothing and appearance. I could never understand it.
One of my aunts is still talking about the day she threw away her girdle. She has no clue that no one knows what she is talking about.
These RW a-holes on Twitter with their juvenile comments about Anderson Cooper is reason #16,890 why I left that "Center-right" Titanic of moronic, religious zealotry that has poisoned all possible rational discussion about anything remotely significant. Good riddance you fucking losers.
Pathetic news coverage on this. It's amazing how American's won't stop complaining about Mexico and pretending to know anything about Mexico and with this we have the USA basically ignoring this piece of news.
FWIW, San Diego's local newspaper, the Union-Tribune (or, rather, what's left of it after almost withering away in the light of the internet) has as its lead story with top headline the story of the Mexican election.
FWIW, San Diego's local newspaper, the Union-Tribune (or, rather, what's left of it after almost withering away in the light of the internet) has as its lead story with top headline the story of the Mexican election.
Pathetic news coverage on this. It's amazing how American's won't stop complaining about Mexico and pretending to anything about Mexico and with this we the USA basically ignoring this piece of news.
Some of us have been watching. The PRI gets a President, but neither of the bicameral House or Senate. Which means they have all get to get together and govern, if they can. Mexico has some serious structural issues, not the least of which (besides drug trafficking) is that their oilfields are steadily decreasing in production.
Enrique Peña Nieto (pronounced: [enˈɾike ˈpeɲa ˈnjeto]; born July 20, 1966) is the presumed President-elect of the Mexico,[1] and a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI). He was governor of the State of Mexico from 2005 to 2011. On September 19, 2011, he announced his candidacy for president in the 2012 Mexican presidential election to succeed Felipe Calderón,[2] and formally registered his candidacy on November 27, 2011.[3] On July 2 he declared himself the winner of the presidential election with between 37 and 38% of the votes.[4] President Felipe Calderon congratulated him for the virtual victory.[5]
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Institucional, PRI) is a Mexican political party that held power in the country—under a succession of names—for 71 years. The PRI is a member of the Socialist International, as is the rival Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), making Mexico one of the few nations with two major, competing parties part of the same international grouping. However, PRI is not considered a socialist party in the traditional sense, its modern policies being characterized as centrist. Its membership in the International dates from the Mexican Revolution and the founding of the party by Plutarco Elías Calles, when the party had a clearer leftist orientation.
This was posted to me a while ago and saved in my favorites...
"Warning to everyone: This graphic is crude and silly. Don't click if you're a take offense person.
But when I saw it, it did make me think of you, Floral.
This was posted to me a while ago and saved in my favorites...
"Warning to everyone: This graphic is crude and silly. Don't click if you're a take offense person.
But when I saw it, it did make me think of you, Floral.
Some of us have been watching. The PRI gets a President, but neither of the bicameral House or Senate. Which means they have all get to get together and govern, if they can. Mexico has some serious structural issues, not the least of which (besides drug trafficking) is that their oilfields are steadily decreasing in production.
Or, as Scooby would say, "Ruh roh!"
Personally I think we should legalize all drugs and let Darwin take over. Maybe I'm wrong. But transfer the whole process to legitimate businesses. I would bet that less people would die in the end.
Personally I think we should legalize all drugs and let Darwin take over. Maybe I'm wrong. But transfer the whole process to legitimate businesses. I would bet that less people would die in the end.
How brave of Ben Shapiro! He really got over the death of America like a champ. One weekend and he's already back to making gay jokes, like America never died at all!
How brave of Ben Shapiro! He really got over the death of America like a champ. One weekend and he's already back to making gay jokes, like America never died at all!
How brave of Ben Shapiro! He really got over the death of America like a champ. One weekend and he's already back to making gay jokes, like America never died at all!
LOL. Good point.
SCOTUS gives ACA a pass and Ben Shapiro is all ready for the REVOLUTION! and then a couple of days later? He's back on "the gays." A true Republican and patriot.
How brave of Ben Shapiro! He really got over the death of America like a champ. One weekend and he's already back to making gay jokes, like America never died at all!
Well, the news cycle being what it is, and Ben being such an outrageously hilarious web commentator..
Or because a part of being conservative means holding onto a rather repressed sense of self? That is itself the definition of conservative. To hold back or repress modernistic urges.
I just came across a fascinating article in Technology Review about how the Affordable Care Act may really help small, innovative businesses: [Link: www.technologyreview.com...]
Night all! Work tomorrow and then fireworks on Wednesday that, hopefully, won't burn down the town. Oh, and my buddy Peter Bay conducting the 1812 Overture as a lead up to the really big shew. (sic)
Wasn't there some study not so long ago that said being fiercely anti-gay can be a strong indicator that you may be in the closet? (Not that a lot of people didn't already believe this anyway...)
Self-hatred is the most intense and complex form of hatred. There is even a compelling case presented by a retired Anglican Bishop Shelby Spong in his book "Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism", that St. Paul was a repressed, self-loathing gay.
I was listening to the interview with Jonathan Krohn on Lawrence O'Donnell's show. I felt bed because the kid's still getting used. Actually, I think this kid just got sick of meeting right wing girls.
Day 2 of a short stint of graveyard shift here in Philly. Supporting a project go-live over in Germany. (I do the German hours, but don't get any of the beer... :( )
A nice balmy 80F outside at 2am.
Plus side is that I have the place to myself. No line for coffee, no noise other than whatever I make, and I can wear my iPod while working. (Dire Straits for the win!)
I have 2-3 Dire Straits albums loaded into mine, Making Movies among them. Currently playing an assembled mix of about 80 songs set to "shuffle". So my listening has been jumping around; Dire Straits, Tom Petty, Red Rider, Iron Maiden among others.
Day 2 of a short stint of graveyard shift here in Philly. Supporting a project go-live over in Germany. (I do the German hours, but don't get any of the beer... :( )
A nice balmy 80F outside at 2am.
Plus side is that I have the place to myself. No line for coffee, no noise other than whatever I make, and I can wear my iPod while working. (Dire Straits for the win!)
Just wrapping up across the Delaware. Didn't think it was that humid today, but I haven't been outside since 6PM.
Favorite Dire Straits song: Telegraph Road. Although Espresso Love is a close second.
Viel Glück mit Ihrem Projekt Deutsch. Doesn't look right. That was from Google translate. I used to speak ausgezeichnetes Deutsch. You'll have to settle for good luck with your German project.
But, there seems to be lots of inconsistencies lately in Google caching - not of webpages in their search engine, but of finding some urls.
If you are using a Google name server (which was pushed by them a while back as better than many name servers) you might try your ISP's default name server, or another one.
Love the shuffle. One minute, Frijid Pink, the next Karen Carpenter, then Deep Purple, then Carly Simon. It's good to be the boss, I get to have my Itunes played over the PA. I get requests for "work force blocks" every so often.
And then every so often I have to scramble back to the office because I left something NSFW. (THink Frank Zappa at the Fillmore) "What kind of girl..."
The the time machine is still stuck in a bimodal pattern (oscillating between the 1960's and the 1940's), here's one of my favorites from the former decade and from one of the more interesting Bond films:
I've not kept up with baseball for many, many years. I do find it curious that the NL Central has so many teams, and that the NL has more teams than the AL.
Last couple of months I've written a bit here about the "Did Jesus Exist" arguments - and now, new at Youtube, one of the actors in these arguments has his presentation at the Free Thoughts Festival just put up:
It's worth watching to get an overview from one of current promoters of the mythicist view. Though I think Carrier tends to under emphasize some important historical matters, at least he is taking an introspective approach to this issue.
I've not kept up with baseball for many, many years. I do find it curious that the NL Central has so many teams, and that the NL has more teams than the AL.
All is not right with the universe.
I pretty much quit following baseball a few player strikes back. Some interest while Philadelphia broke their championship drought a few years back. And follow the Pirates a bit due to genetics and also to a periodic check to see whether they have a chance to break their losing season string.*
* - Said string heavily influenced by how badly broken baseball's payroll structure is. Pirate ownership is happy to run the team as a sort of AAAA development for young players since they still make a profit and get a subsidy as well out of the payroll "tax" the big spender teams pay. Would be interesting to check if the Yankee local TV contract is still worth more than the entire Pittsburgh payroll like it used to be.
A Testament is a statement of faith. The Evangelists are explaining why they believe Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior. They are free to selectively include (or exclude) any arguments that support that point of view.
That is not the same as a biography or a historical treatise. The historical Jesus would be another figure entirely.
Odd. The MP3 won't play here (though they normally do). The ads on the LGF page are all errored out (will not display - looks like some sort of proxy server error.)
I wonder if someone in IT is playing with the site filtering sortware or proxy server settings.
Reality is, as usual, much more complicated than that.
For example, you use the term "The Evangelists", and I assume you are using that as a synonym for "The Gospels" writers. However, it is not clear how many writers were involved in the 4 gospels that were canonized, to say nothing of the numerous gospels that were not canonized.
And, even in the western orthodox canon, the 4 gospels present different claims. For example, you mentioned "Son of God", but not all of the 4 gospels aim at this. John for example emphasizes miracle working to prove Divinity, but Mark is a story whose structure looks more like a dramatic presentation (e.g., a play), with ignorant protagonists (the Twelve) and antagonists (the authorities) who are persecuting an innocent prophet.
And, most of the NT canon is not composed of the 4 gospels but of the epistlary, the authors of whom are mostly unknown except for the 5 which seem to come from the middle of the first century from one Jewish author we call (after the common use) "Paul", and these letters are about interpretations/applications of Jewish writings, laws, and customs in light of the Hellenized world.
The one thing I liked about that Carrier video is that he does stress how Christianity is a syncretization of the common beliefs throughout that region in that time.
My point here was the literary genre of a "testament". A testament is a statement of faith, not a biography or a history. It need not be objective or comprehensive, it only relates to the statement of faith.
A letter of recommendation is a testament, it a statement of why you think a particular person is fit for a certain job. It does not have to go into details about what they did in Junior High school...
And the matter of which gospels became cannonized and why is a historical issue in itself. I first became aware of this whole discussion as a teenager when I was exposed simultaneously to a lot of born again Christians, and to a very good history teacher who put emphasis on investigating and evaluating original sources.
The two produced a conflict in my faith in which the Biblical Jesus lost out to the Historical Jesus.
A Higgs-Boson walks into a church. A priest immediately bars the way and declares, "we don't allow your kind in here." The Higgs-Boson then asks, "but without me, how can you have mass?"
A Higgs-Boson walks into a church. A priest immediately bars the way and declares, "we don't allow your kind in here." The Higgs-Boson then asks, "but without me, how can you have mass?"
Mixing religion and science, isn't that against some rule somewhere? And calling it 'the god particle' really got/has the fundies foaming. Maybe if we put a beard on the particle they would settle down.
My 6-year-old granddaughter, an only girl with 4 brothers, decided she wanted a sister so she dressed her 2-year-old brother in her old clothes--INCLUDING HER UNDERWEAR--snapped a bow in his hair, and changed his name to "Mushkie."
My daughter thought it was totally hilarious and posted a video on FB.
That almost sounds kinky. They love the thing about loins as in "grid your loins" which was made popular by their idol, Michelle Malkin.
Well, speaking as a member of the kink community, and in light of their repeated requests for a 'Great Leader', I'm fairly certain their sexuality is quite kinky.
Except when it's obvious they're getting their rocks off fantasizing about an 'armed revolution', which means killing people they think are less than they are. That's just sick.
Except when it's obvious they're getting their rocks off fantasizing about an 'armed revolution', which means killing people they think are less than they are. That's just sick.
An uprising against a government that was elected freely and fairly, but not not to their liking.
Do not forget, that is the central image of the Tea Party: armed rebellion against a tyrannical usurper.
And now they are calling for armed resistance to a law that was passed by Congress, signed by the President and approved by the Supreme Court.
Why do they hate the American system of government?
Because it was set up as a secular government. No religion gets the upper hand. And that just burns their asses like a 3 foot flame.
It sort of worked for them when (Protestant) Christianity was the de facto state religion, but it all started to come unwravelled at the start of the 20th century, and really went to hell in a handbasket in the second half when Papists, Jews and athiests all started wanting to have their say.
Now it is creeping Sharia's turn to ruin it for them.
Has it ever occurred to these people that heterosexual man can teabag their partners just as easily as homosexual ones? There's this image of a homosexual man as being defined only by sexual acts, when I'm certain that heterosexual men have similar sexual appetites.
Has it ever occurred to these people that heterosexual man can teabag their partners just as easily as homosexual ones? There's this image of a homosexual man as being defined only by sexual acts, when I'm certain that hetereosexual men have similar sexual appetites.
That seems very unwise! Do they really want people tweeting their trial?
Odd. Last time I had jury duty cell phones were off *and collected* every morning when we came into the jury room.
Ah - he probably means the room where you're waiting around to potentially be selected. That can be boring unless you brought a device, book, or newspaper.
Has it ever occurred to these people that heterosexual man can teabag their partners just as easily as homosexual ones? There's this image of a homosexual man as being defined only by sexual acts, when I'm certain that heterosexual men have similar sexual appetites.
No, they don't. Same thing with anal but they think only gays do that.
Odd. Last time I had jury duty cell phones were off *and collected* every morning when we came into the jury room.
Ah - he probably means the room where you're waiting around to potentially be selected. That can be boring unless you brought a device, book, or newspaper.
I'd bring the The Communist Manifesto, The Anarchist Cookbook and Mein Kampf to read. Take that, jury duty!
;)
Anyhow, I love how the Tea Party got upset at being called "Teabaggers" when they were the ones who called themselves that first without realizing the sexual connotation and then acting like it was the left's fault and somehow the term was somehow even close to racial or homophobic slurs. It really showed one how whiny that whole movement is.
Gov. Chris Christie said he is exploring letting the federal government set up the state health insurance exchange required by the federal health care overhaul to allow individuals to buy coverage.
He also said he is not sure that New Jersey needs to expand Medicaid under the federal law because the state's program that covers the poor and disabled is already so inclusive.
The Republican governor made the comments while appearing on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends" show, one of four national television appearances he was making Tuesday, a day after he told New Jersey lawmakers during a special session that they should cut taxes.
New Jersey legislative Democratic leaders said they had already agreed to a tax cut and accused the governor of trying to win more national attention.
Speaking on "Fox and Friends," Christie told about how he rejected the legislative Democrats' $800 million income tax increase, but he did not mention that it was intended only for people making more than $1 million or that the Legislature also adopted a tax cut plan.
The tax hike would have funded a larger property tax relief package, or funded transportation projects without the need for more bonding.
NJ may not need to expand its Medicare program as much as some other states (think LA, FL and TX for instance) to cover those uninsureds anticipated to be covered under the PPACA. It would be a more gradual and smaller expansion, but it would still bring more people into coverage than the current system.
I think that's Christie's way of finessing around the fact that the PPACA's individual mandate wont affect most NJ residents and that the expanded coverage would help those residents who don't have access to affordable insurance coverage.
Christie: I'd 'Answer the Call' If Asked to Be Vice President
[Link: www.cnbc.com...]
Millions of NJ residents are begging mittens to call
I thought he said he'd rather die or something than be VP. Anyhow, I can't see Christie as a good national candidate. Too bombastic in style. Virginia's McDonnell is going to be chairman of the GOP platform committee. I think he will run in 2016 for sure if Romney loses.
@JIDF has blocked me on Twitter because I was following people he didn't like.
I just looked at his timeline. Seems he also flung one of the filthiest, most sexist epithets in existence at you for disagreeing with him. If he claims to be a defender of Jews and then turns around speaks to Jewish women like that, then he's just another piece of internet trash. Good riddance.
Millions more are hoping he sticks around. A poll from May (most recent I could find) shows that Christie's got strong support in the state.
Voters approve 57 - 38 percent of the job Christie is doing, close to his all-time high 59 - 36 percent in an April 11 Quinnipiac University poll. Men approve 61 - 34 percent while women approve 53 - 41 percent. Approval is 87 - 11 percent among Republicans and 61 - 32 percent among independent voters. Democrats disapprove 63 - 30 percent.
New Jersey voters approve 53 - 43 percent of the job Obama is doing and say 52 - 44 percent he deserves to be reelected.
That same poll also found that Christie wouldn't add to Romney's chances in NJ, and that most New Jerseyeans believe that Christie wouldn't be satisfied with a VP slot (eg playing second fiddle).
I just looked at his timeline. Seems he also flung one of the filthiest, most sexist epithets in existence at you for disagreeing with him. If he claims to be a defender of Jews and then turns around speaks to Jewish women like that, then he's just another piece of internet trash. Good riddance.
I didn't see that. Would you please retweet it to show everyone what a freaking dickbag he is.
(CBS/AP) TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's official news agency official IRNA reports that the country's powerful Revolutionary Guards unit has launched several missiles in a military exercise.
Iran holds several military maneuvers per year, but the current one coincides with the beginning of a European Union oil embargo meant to pressure the country over its nuclear program.
The Tuesday report said the missiles, including long-range ones capable of hitting U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, successfully hit their targets.
Don't they know the 4th of July isn't until tomorrow?
I didn't see that. Would you please retweet it to show everyone what a freaking dickbag he is.
I wasn't going to repeat it, but I'll put it here so everyone can see. I have no intention of engaging with that scum, not even as a retweet (yes, the scrubbed word is the c-word):
@viciousbabushka ...I didn't realize you were so ****y though. thanks for headsup.
Millions more are hoping he sticks around. A poll from May (most recent I could find) shows that Christie's got strong support in the state.
That same poll also found that Christie wouldn't add to Romney's chances in NJ, and that most New Jerseyeans believe that Christie wouldn't be satisfied with a VP slot (eg playing second fiddle).
It's interesting how they approve of both Christie and Obama. Anyhow, I do agree with Christie not wanting to play second fiddle. Doesn't sound like his style plus I think he wants to run in the future. It will be interesting to see who Romney names. I think he goes with a southern social conservative who is more populist when it comes to campaigning and rhetoric.
Don't they know the 4th of July isn't until tomorrow?
July 4th is one of my least favorite holidays. Just too many drunks on the roads. I have to run out this morning for supplies so I can hunker down until next week. Luckily all my white trash neighbors are in jail or moved away. Kids sent off to foster care so it should be pretty quiet around here this year.
I would guess Rubio. Florida is a swing state, he might help with Hispanic voters.
I would be very surprised if Rubio went for it. At this point I'm assuming that anyone remotely "serious" is standing well clear to avoid the splatter effect.
I would be very surprised if Rubio went for it. At this point I'm assuming that anyone remotely "serious" is standing well clear to avoid the splatter effect.
That would leave Sheriff Joe still available...
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I would be very surprised if Rubio went for it. At this point I'm assuming that anyone remotely "serious" is standing well clear to avoid the splatter effect.
I would be very surprised if Rubio went for it. At this point I'm assuming that anyone remotely "serious" is standing well clear to avoid the splatter effect.
I don't know much about Rubio but I'm not not so sure he's potentially "serious" on a national level. He might go for it. Mitt may have to settle for any warm body to fill the vp slot. There don't seem to be any good choices available.
July 4th is one of my least favorite holidays. Just too many drunks on the roads. I have to run out this morning for supplies so I can hunker down until next week. Luckily all my white trash neighbors are in jail or moved away. Kids sent off to foster care so it should be pretty quiet around here this year.
Fourth of July is great here. I can walk to the main venues of the festivities. Two parks have things going on, starting with a cowboy breakfast which I might get up for this year, then a parade (which I was in about 5 times--that's the best), then ice cream and hot dogs, a cake walk, live music, and a big fireworks show at night, although the monsoon rains are predicted to arrive right on schedule this year, which means a cloudburst at 3:00 PM, which makes everyone say "Ah!" and then scramble for shelter.
Congratulations are in order for the for-profit college industry, which won a major court ruling this week—a judge ruled that the Department of Education could not penalize these fake schools just because they routinely destroyed the financial future of their graduates. Here are the outrageous DoE rules, which were struck down as "arbitrary and capricious," via the WSJ:
The rules would have required that a school meet one of three requirements for three of four years, or lose access to federal student aid: at least 35% of recent graduates are repaying their loans; loan payments eat up no more than 12% of graduates' average annual earnings; or payments consume no more than 30% of graduates' average discretionary income.
I would guess Rubio. Florida is a swing state, he might help with Hispanic voters.
I can see that though I think Rubio would helpp more with conservatives than Hispanics. I've seen statistics that suggest both Jeb Bush and Charlie Crist outdid him with Hispanic voters. think Rubio's a big gamble too though. He's got very little time on the national stage and you know they don't want a Palin 2.0.
I don't know much about Rubio but I'm not not so sure he's potentially "serious" on a national level. He might go for it. Mitt may have to settle for any warm body to fill the vp slot. There don't seem to be any good choices available.
My guess would be that guys (they're all guys BTW) like Rubio would be eyeing up the 2016 race at this point.
Stuff like this about Muslims reminds me of the Jewish conspiracies. Muslims are taking over medicine, education and government!!! Right. Yep.
It's pretty much the same crap honestly. I did my college term paper on pogroms and Anti-Semitism in the Russian empire, the rhetoric used is very close. Fortunately, we have avoid widespread violence against Muslims but the anti Muslim propaganda machine isn't helping.
Fourth of July is great here. I can walk to the main venues of the festivities. Two parks have things going on, starting with a cowboy breakfast which I might get up for this year, then a parade (which I was in about 5 times--that's the best), then ice cream and hot dogs, a cake walk, live music, and a big fireworks show at night, although the monsoon rains are predicted to arrive right on schedule this year, which means a cloudburst at 3:00 PM, which makes everyone say "Ah!" and then scramble for shelter.
Are they still going to have fireworks with the heat and drought? Sounds kinda risky.
We already had our local 4th of July fireworks display. A few towns here are having them tonight, and more are doing it on the 4th and later in the week. Lots of opportunities for fireworks photos....
To be honest, even though I think the vast majority of for-profit colleges are complete rip-offs, I could see the judge's point in the ruling that the thresholds at which loans should be paid back for continued institutional eligibility were arbitrary.
I hope that the legal system allows the Dept. of Ed to come back with a revised threshold which is
a) not arbitrary, and
b) a lot tougher - e.g. 90% of your students have to be paying their loans back or you're out of luck
My guess would be that guys (they're all guys BTW) like Rubio would be eyeing up the 2016 race at this point.
I think the "any warm body" plan is most likely.
I think the same. Rubio's still very young(DoB is 1969 or 70) I think. I think Rubio wants to ironically postion himself like Obama did as a young, newcomer to national politics. Plus Rubio kind of hurts the Romney argument that Obama "is a failure" because he didn't have enough experience. He's been a senator for not even two years. I know though that the McCain campaign had no problem doing the same with Palin who had comparable state wide experience but in Rubio's defense he was Speaker of the House in his native state before becoming senator but still.
They need to be more creative, like the MB has infiltrated the Bilderberg Group and the new Judeo-Islamic cabal is going to create a global Zionist Caliphate...[or insert the very, very EVIL conspiracy of your choice].
Are they still going to have fireworks with the heat and drought? Sounds kinda risky.
Yep. The public can't shoot 'em off, but our big display is put on by the fire department, who presumably have their equipment strategically arrayed around the area. And the rains are coming! It almost rained here yesterday. Everybody could smell it.
Recreational shooting is being blamed for at least 20 fires this year in the state. It's an activity long enjoyed and fervently protected by enthusiasts -- but firing a gun near the high and dry grass of Utah is sparking flames and igniting controversy throughout the state.
"This is gonna be really (requiring) everybody working together," says Gov. Gary R. Herbert, a Republican. On Monday, Herbert empowered the state's top forests official to restrict firearms near cities and towns where fire danger is extreme.
"Our biggest problem is people being foolish and not using common sense," Herbert lamented.
A recent fire outside Salt Lake City erupted when a recreational target practice led to flames that engulfed an area near a dump. Nine thousand people were temporarily forced from their homes and more than 6,000 acres were charred before the fire was contained.
Gun advocacy groups say banning weapons is a step too far.
Really? Too far? How many homes and businesses have to be destroyed for an outdoors firearms discharge ban to be absolutely necessary? It's a massive lack of common sense on the part of those firing off those firearms; start a fire and watch it drain state and local resources and put lives at risk - see how yet another air tanker crashed just a few days ago fighting fires in SD that grounded a fleet of C-130 tankers.
Common sense indeed. There are open fire bans during red flag weather - that should extend to recreational firearms discharges for the same reason.
I am going to do you a big favor and save you the trouble of following Donald Trump on Twitter.. .
Today, he is SURE that Obama made a deal with the Saudis to increase oil production (and thus lower prices) until after the election...BUT the fact that the prices have gone up this week indicates that OPEC believes he is in trouble.
(I know what you are thinking...my theory is that Trump doesn't pump his own gas and thus has no idea that prices general do go up around summer holidays)
Someone like Portman or Pawlenty could be it. They're both from the kinds of state (I know Mitt won Ohio) that Mitt struggled with in the primaries and I think will going forward too.
Someone like Portman or Pawlenty could be it. They're both from the kinds of state (I know Mitt won Ohio) that Mitt struggled with in the primaries and I think will going forward too.
Mitt should see if he can get Natalie Portman. That will draw some attention.
Today, [Donald Trump] is SURE that Obama made a deal with the Saudis to increase oil production (and thus lower prices) until after the election...
My counter theory: GOP speculators are planning to let prices go down until mid-summer and then they will start pusing them back upwards, peaking in late October. Because the absolute prices do not matter, it is only what voters feel at the pump
Because there is a solid block of people in the US who never allow any kind of up-front investment in anything, no matter how great the cost and efficiency savings down the line. These people are known as "Republicans".
The wildfires are just a ploy to take away the guns from good old fashioned God fearing Americans! These wildfires are being set by Eric Holder and company in order to facilitate the eventual confiscation of handguns, rifles, you name it! Wake up and smell the coffee!!
Now. Can I sign you up for a years subscription to the NRA?
they don't do it here in my part of Germany, the Middle Rhine Valley, because it is hilly, broken country with slate hills. Fortunately, this valley is also well sheltered by surrounding hills against most storms, have only experienced one power outage here in the past five years.
Because there is a solid block of people in the US who never allow any kind of up-front investment in anything, no matter how great the cost and efficiency savings down the line. These people are known as "Republicans".
Next question.
This a perfect opportunity to create many Shovel Ready Jobs™ and prevent major power problems in the future.
Try standing for election on a local city planning ticket with a policy of improving local power infrastructure by burying the power lines.
Then count the seconds until the PAC-funded radio ads begin:
"Prospective councillor Iossarian hates America. Tell prospective councillor Iossarian that wasting taxpayer dollars on vanity projects is evil and wrong."
Because we like to "run the country like a business". Unfortunately, that does not entail judicious, long-term investments that pay benefits years down the line, but rather seeking immediate short-term profits.
And foreign born too which you know would drive Farah and WND nuts because anyone with any relation to a foreign country is suspect not true Americans like Joe Stalin stahce.
Seriously. Putting ALL utilities underground would be a massive undertaking that would likely take close to 100 years. Think about it. That being said a lot of cities are doing the conversion but it's going to take a long time.
Because we like to "run the country like a business". Unfortunately, that does not entail judicious, long-term investments that pay benefits years down the line, but rather seeking immediate short-term profits.
Running the country like a business seems to actually occur only when it comes to fleecing the poor.
Evelyn Garcia, a member of the Democratic National Committee from Palm Beach County, resigned the post Monday after emails surfaced in which she sharply criticized Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
Garcia, a candidate for the State House of Representatives from District 88, which includes parts of West Palm Beach and Riviera Beach, said she would continue to campaign for that seat. She apologized for her remarks and called them “ugly” and “hurtful.”
The emails were provided anonymously to local Democratic Party leaders late last week, those leaders said. In each case, the recipient’s name was blacked out. Some of them appear to have been written to a South Florida Congressional aide.
“The continued Israeli occupation of Palestine is ugly on moral, ethical, religious and legal grounds,” Garcia said in an email dated July 26, 2011. “Palestinians had nothing to do with the holocaust and it is time that this guilt trip was taken off their backs…. And I deeply resent U.S. taxpayer funds being used to continue Israeli aggression.”
In that same email, Garcia accused Israel of confiscating land and building illegal settlements in occupied territories, as well as “incursions that kill people, destroy civilian homes and infrastructure all over; mass concentration prison camps, etc.”
In A May 24, 2011 message, Garcia wrote: “Slavery was ended, apartheid was ended and so this occupation must end.”
County Democratic Party Chairman Mark Alan Siegel accepted Garcia’s resignation Monday afternoon. He called the emails “grossly inappropriate.”
Seriously. Putting ALL utilities underground would be a massive undertaking that would likely take close to 100 years. Think about it. That being said a lot of cities are doing the conversion but it's going to take a long time.
The neighborhoods around here who have buried power lines lose power much less during storms than the ones with with the lines stretched over telephone poles. It also makes the area look better.
The neighborhoods around here who have buried power lines lose power much less during storms than the ones with with the lines stretched over telephone poles. It also makes the area look better.
Don't expect something that's taken over 100 years to change overnight. It's a massive undertaking.
Sexual scandal resulting in arrest of a Republican? Say it ain't so!
Just got a press release from the Orange County District Attorney's office that SanTana councilmember Carlos "Busty" Bustamante was arrested this afternoon and is being charged for a litany of sex crimes.
The full kit-'n'-caboodle of charges, according to the press release: "six felony counts of false imprisonment, three felony counts of assault with the intent to commit a sexual offense, one felony count each of stalking, attempted sexual battery by restraint, and grand theft by false pretense, and one misdemeanor count each of battery, assault, sexual battery, and attempted sexual battery with a sentencing enhancement allegation for committing the offenses as a result of sexual compulsion and for the purpose of sexual gratification."
Damn, son!
Bustamante, of course, has a long history of being a pig. More--much more--as the situation becomes clearer. Press conference tomorrow--see you there!
It's a shame that there is so little tolerance for criticism of Israeli policy vis-a-vis the Palestinians in the US. It makes reasoned debate essentially impossible when any attempt to say that perhaps Israel needs to rethink its approach is met with this kind of hostility.
The neighborhoods around here who have buried power lines lose power much less during storms than the ones with with the lines stretched over telephone poles. It also makes the area look better.
Boils down to trading risks and issues for other risks and issues. Storms (wind) vs Storms (flooding). Tree branches vs Tree roots. Etc. etc. Plus underground installation is usually more expensive and more disruptive to do. Along with access issues.
Tell you what - I don't particularly need to continue this argument. You can take my advice or leave it.
Ok. Just a little advise...if you enter a neighborhood without power lines along poles but you see a handful of little green boxes sitting on the ground you probably have entered an area with underground power lines ;)
Because the costs are prohibitive, and it ignores what happens when there are floods. Flooding buried lines means that it can take even longer to restore power than the overhead lines. See Hurricane Irene; TS Lee for instance where areas that had buried lines saw power lost for more than a week or two.
Also, buried lines are more susceptible to damage from salt runoff from roads - corroding the lines out and needing more frequent repair/replacement.
Better control of right of ways is needed - better and more pruning of trees, and judicious use of underground lines where applicable (and not in areas prone to flooding).
Ok. Just a little advise...if you enter a neighborhood without power lines along poles but you see a handful of little green boxes sitting on the ground you probably have entered an area with underground power lines ;)
Lol "advise".
I've lived in both Europe and the US, and I can tell you that US power infrastructure is pitiful in its reliability compared to Europe, because (notwithstanding some areas in which people have managed to invest in such modern-day wonders as underground power lines) the US does not invest in its infrastructure to nearly the same degree as Europe does.
Ok. Just a little advise...if you enter a neighborhood without power lines along poles but you see a handful of little green boxes sitting on the ground you probably have entered an area with underground power lines ;)
All the new subdivisions have underground power/phone/cable/fiber optics/sharks and some of the old areas have everything above ground.
Oh, and I've previously written about the power line issue (overhead vs. buried). Tree trimming has gotten people pissed off too, even though that's a guaranteed way of eliminating one of the major causes of outages (and the 2003 blackout was due to trees cutting power lines causing the cascade throughout the East Coast).
Oh, and I've previously written about the power line issue (overhead vs. buried). Tree trimming has gotten people pissed off too, even though that's a guaranteed way of eliminating one of the major causes of outages (and the 2003 blackout was due to trees cutting power lines causing the cascade throughout the East Coast).
Oh, and I've previously written about the power line issue (overhead vs. buried). Tree trimming has gotten people pissed off too, even though that's a guaranteed way of eliminating one of the major causes of outages (and the 2003 blackout was due to trees cutting power lines causing the cascade throughout the East Coast).
My county cuts a wide area of trees away from the power lines every summer. It definitely keeps power outages to a minimum. I was only out of power for one day from Friday's storms. Parts Albemarle county are expected to be out until this coming Saturday.
The same people who would want to see buried lines will also be people who complain when the utilities ask for and receive permission from the PSCs to raise rates to upgrade utilities by burying lines or doing other necessary work and/or complain when their roads are torn up to bury said utilities.
It's a no-win situation. So, we get stuck with the situation we've got.
Some places have overhead lines, and others don't.
Manhattan has essentially eliminated overhead lines, but the outer boroughs have large areas still serviced by overhead lines. That means during bad weather, the outer boroughs see more outages, but when we get into the winter season, Manhattan sees more underground fires due to power lines shorting out, causing localized outages.
Had TS Lee or Irene hit NYC head-on, the buried lines would have brought Manhattan and NYC to a standstill - requiring replacement of hundreds of miles of buried lines (to say nothing of a flooded out subway system).
The same people who would want to see buried lines will also be people who complain when the utilities ask for and receive permission from the PSCs to raise rates to upgrade utilities by burying lines or doing other necessary work and/or complain when their roads are torn up to bury said utilities.
It's a no-win situation. So, we get stuck with the situation we've got.
Some places have overhead lines, and others don't.
Manhattan has essentially eliminated overhead lines, but the outer boroughs have large areas still serviced by overhead lines. That means during bad weather, the outer boroughs see more outages, but when we get into the winter season, Manhattan sees more underground fires due to power lines shorting out, causing localized outages.
Had TS Lee or Irene hit NYC head-on, the buried lines would have brought Manhattan and NYC to a standstill - requiring replacement of hundreds of miles of buried lines (to say nothing of a flooded out subway system).
Exactly. In some areas you're just creating another new set of problems with underground utilities: namely flooding. They're also harder to inspect, repair and replace.
Two Iranian agents arrested with explosives planned to attack US, British, Israeli or Saudi Arabian targets in Kenya, officials have claimed.
Officials told the Associated Press news agency that the plot appears to fit into a global pattern of attacks or attempted attacks by Iranian agents, mostly against Israeli interests.
Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammad and Sayed Mansour Mousavi were arrested last week with 33 pounds of RDX, a powerful explosive, in the coastal city of Mombasa. Several hotels on the coast are Israeli-owned.
One official said the Iranians are members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force, an elite and secretive unit.
I've lived in both Europe and the US, and I can tell you that US power infrastructure is pitiful in its reliability compared to Europe, because (notwithstanding some areas in which people have managed to invest in such modern-day wonders as underground power lines) the US does not invest in its infrastructure to nearly the same degree as Europe does.
But investing in infrastructure is EVIL! I'd have to pay more taxes to have the lifestyle I want them to give me for free!!!
The particle has been so difficult to pin down that the physicist Leon Lederman reportedly wanted to call his book "The Goddamn Particle." But he truncated that epithet to "The God Particle," which may have helped elevate the particle's allure in popular culture.
Bryan Fischer has dedicated almost every minute of his program since the Supreme Court upheld the health care reform legislation last week to railing against it and has been growing increasingly outraged and apocalyptic with every passing day.
The trend continued yesterday when Fischer seized upon an old Brietbart article about a survey conducted by a Tea Party-affiliated group called the Doctor Patient Medical Association Foundation that supposedly found that 83% of doctors are thinking about quitting the practice of medicine and nearly half would stop accepted Medicaid/Medicare patients because of the changes in legislation.
As such, Fischer declared, President Obama was going to have to create an army of "enforcers," "Stormtroopers," and "Medical Nazis" to go around forcing doctors to remain in business and ordering them to provide treatment to patients:
The particle has been so difficult to pin down that the physicist Leon Lederman reportedly wanted to call his book "The Goddamn Particle." But he truncated that epithet to "The God Particle," which may have helped elevate the particle's allure in popular culture.
Just imagine if they'd called it the "Allah Particle"...
The particle has been so difficult to pin down that the physicist Leon Lederman reportedly wanted to call his book "The Goddamn Particle." But he truncated that epithet to "The God Particle," which may have helped elevate the particle's allure in popular culture.
I wanted to cry when I read that article which said finding the Higgs Boson was bad news for atheists.
Republican Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), knocked his Democratic opponent Tammy Duckworth — a veteran who lost both of her legs as a helicopter pilot in Iraq — for talking about her military career too much. Discussing her accomplishments, Walsh suggested, meant that Duckworth was not a “true [hero].”
Walsh said at a town hall meeting on Sunday that unlike Duckworth, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) rarely spoke about his military service during the 2008 presidential election — a claim that ignores the thrust of McCain’s campaign and his entire political career.
“That’s what’s so noble about our heroes. Now I’m running against a woman who — I mean, my God, that’s all she talks about,” said Walsh, in video posted by Think Progress. “Our true heroes, it’s the last thing in the world they talk about. Our true heroes, the men and women who served us, it’s the last thing in the world they talk about. That’s why we are so indebted and in awe of what they have done.”
Yeah, real heroes stand up to their ex-wives and refuse to pay their child support. Everyone knows that.
I wanted to cry when I read that article which said finding the Higgs Boson was bad news for atheists.
I read the article last night. I honestly don't think the author was assigned religious/supernatural qualities to the Higgs. However, it's a lazy way to gin up controversy over the article, and provides fuel for the idiots who honestly think this will prove the existence of God/Yahweh/Allah/Xenu, et. al.
It's kind of like when evolution is short-handed as monkey=man. It's dumbing down the subject to catch readers' interest ASAP, but it's also the only evolution education most people (Americans, anyway) are likely to get or care about.
So, the GOP position is that serving your nation is good, except if you're a Democrat, who can't talk about their service and/or sacrifices to the nation (such as losing limbs as in Duckworth's case).
Gotcha.
Methinks Walsh hasn't figured out the riddle of steel is an ass.
I wanted to cry when I read that article which said finding the Higgs Boson was bad news for atheists.
Bozos will be bozos. Looks like the name Leon Lederman settled on, "The God Particle", has created an urban legend or complete misunderstanding by the general public.
So, the GOP position is that serving your nation is good, except if you're a Democrat, who can't talk about their service and/or sacrifices to the nation (such as losing limbs as in Duckworth's case).
Gotcha.
Methinks Walsh hasn't figured out the riddle of steel is an ass.
So, the GOP position is that serving your nation is good, except if you're a Democrat, who can't talk about their service and/or sacrifices to the nation (such as losing limbs as in Duckworth's case).
Gotcha.
Methinks Walsh hasn't figured out the riddle of steel is an ass.
Now, that's not true. If a Democratic President managed to get Bin Laden, for example, you know that the GOP would put partisan politics aside and...
So, the GOP position is that serving your nation is good, except if you're a Democrat, who can't talk about their service and/or sacrifices to the nation (such as losing limbs as in Duckworth's case).
Gotcha.
Methinks Walsh hasn't figured out the riddle of steel is an ass.
They support the troops as long as they shut up and stay out of sight when they get home.
...and don't expect health care or rehabilitation for their wounds, mental and physical. Or education to return to civilian life.
The military is a calling, much like teaching, firefighting or law enforcement. They knew what they were getting into and shouldn't expect to be able to leach off taxpayers or play on the public's sympathies.
We support the troops as long as they shut up and stay out of sight when they get home unconditionally vote GOP.
Apparently in Walsh's case, there's a quid quo pro when comes to the troops.
It's also a sign of how insane the GOP is right now, in that Walsh is criticizing a US veteren who lost both her legs for her country for daring to mentioning it.
Apparently in Walsh's case, there's a quid quo pro when comes to the troops.
It's also a sign of how insane the GOP is right now, in that Walsh is criticizing a US veteren who lost both her legs for her country for daring to mentioning it.
Apparently in Walsh's case, there's a quid quo pro when comes to the troops.
It's also a sign of how insane the GOP is right now, in that Walsh is criticizing a US veteren who lost both her legs for her country for daring to mentioning it.
On what fucking planet does this make sense?
How DARE she show up in a wheelchair! Pandering b***h!
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I didn't think Walsh could be any more of an asshole: Deadbeat Dad, asshole who yells at his constituents, and now he's telling Tammy Duckworth who is the definition of a hero that she's not one. Takes a real pussy like Walsh to say that. Walsh is just angry because his political future is probably dead.
After Time’s Mark Halperin referred to the President of the United States as a “dick” Thursday, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough made it clear that he helped orchestrate the incident.
Scarborough set Halperin up by asking him about yesterday’s press conference where President Barack Obama scolded Republicans for not raising the debt ceiling.
“Are we on the seven-second delay?” Halperin asked.
“Yeah, sure,” Scarborough said. “Come on. Take a chance.”
“I thought he was kind of a dick yesterday,” Halperin announced with smile.
Following the commercial break, Scarborough admitted he was complicit in the stunt.
... MSNBC has suspended Halperin indefinitely.
“Mark Halperin’s comments this morning were completely inappropriate and unacceptable,” MSNBC said in a statement. “We apologize to the president, the White House and all of our views. We strive for a high level of discourse and comments like these have no place on our air. Therefore, Mark will be suspended indefinitely from his role as an analyst.”
Duckworth chose to become a helicopter pilot because few other combat roles are open to women. She has served for more than 20 years, earning the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and receiving multiple military awards, including a Purple Heart, an Air Medal, and an Army Commendation Medal.
Oh, like we're supposed to be impressed by all that.
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Yeah. We all know how John McCain never talked about his experience in Vietnam.
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A friend of mine always claims McCain was a known terrible pilot and only got to his position through family ties. Therefore, it was no surprise when he got captured.
The implication, of course, is that McCain somehow brought his capture and torture on himself. When I called him out on this, he stated he was simply citing the facts of the case.
Yet, if I show him what Walsh said to Duckworth, he'd be in a rage. Go figure.
I had a similar issue this morning. Was checking out the NY Daily News site on my smartphone, and they had some kind of issue with the news feed. It was more than 2 months old. I accidentally tweeted that Mike Wallace died... which he did back in April (and other items showed Don Cornelius passed away).
The Daily News was upgrading/updating its site design, which is probably why the news feeds were all screwed up.
"Daddy, daddy, we're hungry!"
"Scram, kid, I got a new girlfriend to knock up impress."
Can you believe the AFA gave this guy their man of the year award? Oh wait I can because all that matters to the AFA is that you vote like a homophobe and denounce those who don't think gays are Satan.
Where does the party find quality candidates like this? Is there a vertting process that involves hitting them on the head with a brick and disqualifying the ones who say "Ouch"?
A friend of mine always claims McCain was a known terrible pilot and only got to his position through family ties. Therefore, it was no surprise when he got captured.
The implication, of course, is that McCain somehow brought his capture and torture on himself. When I called him out on this, he stated he was simply citing the facts of the case.
Yet, if I show him what Walsh said to Duckworth, he'd be in a rage. Go figure.
I find it a little difficult to see McCain as a "terrible pilot" considering that he was qualified to make arrested landings on a carrier. Perhaps he was a mediocre pilot at worst but given his carrier quals that isn't exactly a low standing in the pilots' world. There are a lot conspiracy theories about McCain regarding his naval aviator and POW experience -- they have come from both sides of the political aisle (left and right). Another one I hear often is that he was the cause of the 1967 USS Forrestal fire. This is complete bullshit of course.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized Tuesday for a November attack by U.S. forces that left 24 Pakistani troops dead.
"I once again reiterated our deepest regrets for the tragic incident in Salala last November," Clinton said in a statement about her call with Pakistani foreign minister Rabbani Khar.
"I offered our sincere condolences to the families of the Pakistani soldiers who lost their lives. Foreign Minister Khar and I acknowledged the mistakes that resulted in the loss of Pakistani military lives. We are sorry for the losses suffered by the Pakistani military. We are committed to working closely with Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent this from ever happening again," Clinton said.
The Salala incident involved NATO helicopters crossing into Pakistan from Afghanistan, and engaging Pakistani troops at two border crossings while conducting operations against Afghani Taliban forces. The NATO air forces claimed that they had come under fire and were only defending Afghan troops on the ground.
Until now, the administration has declined to apologize — citing an ongoing investigation. Clinton also announced Tuesday that an agreement had been reached with Pakistan over supply routes — a longstanding source of tension between Washington and Islamabad. Those overland supply routes have been closed ever since the attack.
U.S. space agency NASA warned this week that a massive solar flare recorded on Monday could cause spectacular geomagnetic storms on Earth as soon as Wednesday.
Video published by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the flare in multiple wavelengths jetting out from a sunspot on July 2. The agency said that it caused a magnetic burst that may be powerful enough to cause significant static interruptions in some radio communications in Europe and light up the night skies with atmospheric auroras.
The burst was almost powerful enough to be classified by NASA as an X-class solar flare, the highest and most threatening rating. An X-class flare could significantly disrupt space-based electronics like global positioning systems, cause stock markets to crash or even knock out whole power grids for weeks or months, which NASA has been warning about for years now after predicting the current period of intense solar activity.
The latest flare shouldn’t be enough to cause such disruptions, but NASA says that conditions are ripe for another X-class flare. A similar event in 1989 caused blackouts in Canada, NASA noted in February.
Completely agree. McCain was a lot of things, but he wasn't a poor pilot. You can't be a bad pilot and still be carrier qualified. At the same time, while it was his plane that had the malfunction resulting in the Forrestal fire disaster, it wasn't his fault. An electrical malfunction traced back to how the fleet was arming Zunis was a contributing factor and when the malfunction launched the Zuni into another armed A-4, the older bomb loads detonated from the high temps killing the first responding firefighters who had no idea that they had half the time they thought they did to get the bombs cooled off.
Yeah the attacks on McCain's were silly. Never saw anyone affiliated with the Obama campaign do it but I did see some other people on the left do it which was disappointing since we on the left were rightfully upset when Kerry got swiftboated in 1003.
Completely agree. McCain was a lot of things, but he wasn't a poor pilot. You can't be a bad pilot and still be carrier qualified. At the same time, while it was his plane that had the malfunction resulting in the Forrestal fire disaster, it wasn't his fault. An electrical malfunction traced back to how the fleet was arming Zunis was a contributing factor and when the malfunction launched the Zuni into another armed A-4, the older bomb loads detonated from the high temps killing the first responding firefighters who had no idea that they had half the time they thought they did to get the bombs cooled off.
The Zuni of course was fired from a Phantom located near the stern of the Forrestal.
Yeah the attacks on McCain's were silly. Never saw anyone affiliated with the Obama campaign do it but I did see some other people on the left do it which was disappointing since we on the left were rightfully upset when Kerry got swiftboated in 1003.
Ted Sampley was the lead nut against McCain. For example.
Scarborough is now unveiling endorsements of the effort from Senator Roy Blunt and Congressmen Todd Akin, Doug Lamborn, Duncan Hunter and Louie Gohmert, and major Religious Right groups like the American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, Liberty Counsel, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission and the Family Research Council. Dominionist organizations including Lou Engle’s The Call and Cindy Jacobs’ Generals International have also signed on, along with Janet Porter’s Faith2Action, Jerry Boykin’s Kingdom Warriors, Sam Roriguez’s National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and Jim Garlow’s Renewing American Leadership.
The board of directors appears to be a who’s who of leading conservative activists and pastors:
OT WW, I actually did redo my favorite blog list at my site. I hadn't really touched it since I started TAL, but your bugging me made me look at it, organize it and get it up to date.
Ted Sampley was the lead nut against McCain. For example.
Yeah. Anyhow, I must admit obviously not being a Vietnam Vet myself nor having a father who was I don't know the dynamics personally much. However, as some of you know I work for a historical magazine firm, one of our magazines is a Vietnam Its readership naturally includes a ton of Vietnam vets. I recently had to go through old issues for archival reasons and the magazine's decision to do a story on Max Cleland brought in a lot of nasty letters about Cleland. I thought it was sad to see veterans attack one of their own's courage and bravery simply because of his politics.
Louisiana Gov. Bob Jindal, who has vowed to reject the expansion of Medicaid under President Barack Obama’s health care law, charged Tuesday that the president “measures success by how many people are on food stamp rolls and government-run health care.”
“The president, his administration, needs to understand what makes this country great in part is that we’re not dependent on government programs,” the Republican governor said on “Fox & Friends.” “It seems to me like the president measures success by how many people are on food stamp rolls and government-run health care. That’s not the American dream.”
You are fucking retarded. How is it censorship when it is THEIR search engine they are censoring. By saying they can't censor guns in their search is in essence censoring them from censoring anything on their site.
Tests hint at possible Arafat poisoning Nine-month investigation by Al Jazeera discovers rare, radioactive polonium on ex-Palestinian leader's final belongings.
Tests hint at possible Arafat poisoning Nine-month investigation by Al Jazeera discovers rare, radioactive polonium on ex-Palestinian leader's final belongings.
Officially, the food stamp program is now formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It is broadly available to almost all households with low incomes, though most of the benefits go to families with children. (It also has massive support from the farm lobby, which is why GOP efforts to cut it back have often failed.)
Gingrich is correct that the number of people on food stamps has reached an all-time high. Of course, the economic aftershocks of the Great Recession, which was in full force before Obama took office, has a lot to do with that fact. There often is a time lag between when economic disaster strikes and when people begin to apply for food-stamp assistance.
The mostly recent monthly U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics show that the number of food stamp recipients has topped 46 million, an increase of 65 percent since 2008.
But this increase started in part because of changes in the food stamp program under President George W. Bush, when Congress overrode his veto of the 2008 Farm Bill. That law boosted the purchasing power of food stamps by indexing key elements to inflation.
At the same time, however, Obama’s stimulus bill also temporarily boosted benefits even more. The Obama administration also announced that it was pushing to expand eligibility, in part on the theory that expanding the food stamp program is also good for the economy because the money is quickly spent.
It’s true that the most recent figures from the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service (provided to Factcheck.org/USA Today) show that a record number of people—some 46.2 million—are enrolled in the program. But the same data shows that more individuals were added to the program while George W. Bush was in office than have enrolled under Obama’s presidency: Under Bush, the program grew by 14.7 million individuals; under Obama so far, it’s grown by 14.2 million, and, as of October, was declining.
So Bush wins on volume, and Obama wins on velocity: In just a few years, President Obama managed to expand the program by nearly as much as Bush. But Obama didn’t do it without some help from his Republican predecessor, who approved policy changes that set the stage for the program’s current growth.
Nope, I can still get 253,000+ returns for "dirt cheap ammo' search.
They're commercializing their "Google Shopping" results and don't, I'm guessing, want to deal with the mess of patchwork that is 50 states worth of drastically different laws on things like magazine capacity, parts & firearms themselves. As a result they're cutting the results from those specific shopping searches. At least, that's what I understand once all the pro-gun/anti-gun hype is peeled away.
Meaningless to me as I'd not shop that way to begin with.
OT WW, I actually did redo my favorite blog list at my site. I hadn't really touched it since I started TAL, but your bugging me made me look at it, organize it and get it up to date.
My "bugging" consisted of pointing out that you have a proud member of the League of the South among your favorites. Your organizing and updating of it kept him on there. I don't understand why you are notifying me of this. Am I missing something?
Brent Bozell's a real gem. This is the fella whose "Parents' Television Council" was forced to pay 3.5 million bucks to Vince McMahon's pro wrestling company after it was found that Bozell had falsely accused McMahon's wrestlers of causing a kid to kill another. ([Link: bit.ly...] The best part: the PTC had to make a public apology and leave it on its website for a year.
When you make Vince McMahon look reasonable, you have a problem.
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Worse than Watergate. That's the refrain coming from the Obama administration's critics as it scrambles to tamp down a growing pile of scandals. "The Obama administration's cover-up of the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack surpasses Watergate," states Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa). The IRS-tea party scandal "is far worse than Watergate," according to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). And Pinal County, Arizona, Sheriff Paul ...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) feuded this week. Then they feuded some more. It wasn’t the first time tensions between the longtime senator and the freshman tea party favorite flared up. And it’s a pretty safe bet that it won’t be the last.The dispute between McCain and his allies and Cruz and his cohort lays bare a new fault ...
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) -- Maine's governor, who has gained attention in the past for telling the NAACP to "kiss my butt" and comparing the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo, has moved out of his office at the State House and says he'll work out of the governor's mansion because of a dispute over a television screen. Republican Gov. Paul LePage has temporarily ...
It's been burbling up from the conservative media for nearly six months, starting with Fox News. Last year, the network's reporter Catherine Herridge reported on a ship that had arrived to Turkey from Libya laden with weapons. Ordnance left unsecured after the fall of Gaddafi was being taken to Syria to overthrow another dictator. This isn't in much dispute. The dispute, and the ...
The 12 disruptive technologies include: mobile Internet, automation of knowledge and work, Internet of things, cloud technology, advanced robotics, autonomous and near-autonomous vehicles, next-generation genomics, energy storage, 3D printing, advanced materials, advanced oil and gas exploration and recovery, renewable energy.
More: McKinsey: Technologies That Will Disrupt Our World - Business Insider
The big news today is that a bridge in Washington collapsed, throwing cars into the water. Amazingly, nobody died. This may revive debate about the need to spend more on infrastructure, which would have multiple positive effects. Nothing is likely to happen, however. That being said, here's a chart of public construction spending (TLPBLCONS) as percentage of GDP. You can see, public construction ...
In case you were worried you'd ever get a good night's sleep again, here are some stuffed animals that go way beyond wrong. More: The World's Most Awkward Taxidermy Just noticed this but if you click the link, then click of the first photo (the bear) and hover over the photo with your cursor you get "annotations" (comments) left by others. Not only ...
Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust." "I hit the brakes and we went off," Sligh told reporters from a hospital, adding he "saw the water approaching ... you hold on as tight as you can." Slight, his wife and ...
. . . before the trial? Calling attention to this material and playing it up in the press is a public-relations strategy, law experts say. "No judge will allow this to be a trial of whether the victim is a bad person," O'Donnell says, "but it can color the whole trial - it can color the judge's view of the victim and can affect ...
The death of an 8-month-old child whose parents believe in healing by prayer has been ruled a homicide by the Philadelphia medical examiner, according to CBS Philly. Brandon Schaible, infant son of Herbert and Catherine Schaible, reportedly died on April 18th from dehydration and bacterial pneumonia stemming from a streptococcus infection. The Schaibles have worked as teachers at their fundamentalist church, the First ...
Spacecraft could determine their position anywhere in the solar system to within five kilometres using signals from x-ray pulsars, say astronomers. Navigating in space is a tricky business. The usual method relies on Earth-based tracking stations to work out a spacecraft's distance using radio waves, a process that is accurate to within a metre or so. That's fine for the radial distance, but ...
The NASA Astrobiology Program has started the process of outlining future research directions at the organization. Roughly every ten years, the program updates NASA’s official Astrobiology Roadmap – a document that guides research and technology develop ment across NASA and encompass the space, Earth, and biological sciences. This time around, the program is opening the process up to the wider astrobiology community and ...
6) If husbands want more sex, women should do everything they can to give it to them. Focus on the Family's marriage counselor Juli Slattery is blunt about: Married men need sex, and so wives who aren't providing enough need to step up. While she claims she isn't trying to guilt trip women into having more sex, she argues that sex is a ...
Last month we shared some photo illustrations by science artist Ron Miller that showed what the night sky would look like if other planets in our solar system replaced the moon. Now Miller is back again with an equally interesting concept: what would landscape photos look like if Earth had a ring like Saturn's? It's nice having a moon, but "for spectacular skies ...
Nice, right? Anyway, here's my thesis: Raiders of the Lost Ark is not an action-adventure movie about an archaeologist who plays by his own rules and saves the day. Instead, the film is an exploration of Marion Ravenwood's crippling drug addiction. An addiction that was born from her unhealthy relationship and continued association with Indiana Jones. Is it true? Who cares. Can I prove ...
What is going on in Stockholm? This is nuts. A car set on fire burns, following riots in the Stockholm suburb of Kista late May 21, 2013.(Reuters / Fredrik Sandberg) Youth gang riots in the Swedish capital Stockholm have entered fifth straight night. Hundreds of mostly immigrant teenagers tore through the suburbs, smashing windows and burning cars in the country’s worst outbreak of violence ...
As shocking and appalling as Wednesdays brutal murder was, Woolwich (wool-ich) is a not so surprising location for such an attack. As someone pretty local to Woolwich, I thought I might give a little profile of the area, if anyone is interested. Woolwich is traditionally a military area, with the old Arsenal at its centre and the new barracks one of London's important military ...
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R-PA) brushed away a question about Latinos working in his administration during a roundtable discussion at The Union League in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Friday, telling the moderator, "If you can find us one let me know": MODERATOR: Do you have staff members that are Latino? CORBETT: No, we do not have any staff members in there. If you can ...
More: $40 for Case of Bottled Water? 'Preying' on Oklahoma Tornado Victims Investigators with the Oklahoma Attorney General's office have already uncovered evidence of businesses taking advantage of the recent tornado's devastation by price-gouging in the weather-ravaged region, including a grocery store accused of charging consumers $40 for a case of water. Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt told ABC News that 30 investigators from ...
You think our music- the Monkees music is banal and insipid?" -- Frank replying to Mike Nesmith on an episode of "The Monkees" on which Frank and Mike pretended to be each other for several minutes before the opening theme.
Frank says:
