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I was wondering if there was extra foley done here by others, but after seeing the duplication Usually refered to as anyways saw, I’m just gonna assume he did his own foot-stomp and clapping foley.
“Taking it at face value they sound innocuous and lovely: critical thinking, debate and analysis. It seems so innocent, so pure. But they chose to question only areas that religious conservatives are uncomfortable with. There is a religious agenda here,” said Josh Rosenau, an NCSE program and policy director.
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The laws can have a direct impact on a state. In Louisiana some 78 Nobel laureate scientists have endorsed the repeal of the creationist education law there. The Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology has even launched a boycott of Louisiana and cancelled a scheduled convention in New Orleans. Louisiana native and prominent anti-creationist campaigner in the state Zack Kopplin said that those pushing such bills in other states were risking similar economic damage to their local economies. “It will hurt economic development,” Kopplin said.
There is also the impact on students, he added, when they are taught controversies in subjects where the overwhelming majority of scientists have long ago reached consensus agreement. “It really hurts students. It can be embarrassing to be from a state which has become a laughing stock in this area,” Kopplin said. Others experts agreed, arguing that it could even hurt future job prospects for students graduating from those states’ public high schools. “The jobs of the future are high tech and science-orientated. These lawmakers are making it harder for some of these kids to get those jobs,” said Boston.
Thanks. Just put this on. Makes me feel like I’m in a Parisian night club in the 30’s. I’ve heard a little Mark O’Connor since he was on a Sharon Isbin CD I heard and I like Django Reinhardt a ton too.
The Death Korps of Krieg is the name given to all of the Imperial Guard regiments that originate from the devastated, post-nuclear Death World of Krieg in the Segmentum Tempestus. Krieg was the site of a rebellion against the Imperium of Man over 1,500 standard years ago in the 40th Millennium and was bombarded with nuclear weapons followed by five hundred years of grinding warfare to purge the heretical rebels. After all those years of nuclear destruction and bitter trench warfare, Krieg was reduced to a scorched, radioactive husk of a world composed of dust and mud whose surviving people were forced to retreat into underground hive cities to survive the toxic planetary environment. The Death Korps of Krieg is a siege specialist regiment of the Imperial Guard and the regiments raised on Krieg seek to repent for their former treachery against the Imperium by displaying a disturbing disregard for their own lives in combat. Death Korps troops excel at wars of attrition and defensive combat in particular.
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Castigation of Derondis (936-946.M41) - The Hive World of Derondis withheld its annual tithes and regiments of Krieg’s Death Korps were deployed to act as the honour guard of the Departmento Munitorum investigation team. After the Imperium officials were hanged by the rebellious populace, the Krieg troops redeployed into the towering mountains that overlooked the primary hive city. Several artillery and siege companies began to bombard the city spires and the inhabitants were mercilessly gunned down as they tried to break out from the besieged city. After ten standard years of relentless shelling, the hive was reduced to naught but rubble and dust, two years after all signs of life from the hive had already ceased and five years after the hive had plantively issued its unconditional surrender.
Thanks. Just put this on. Makes me feel like I’m in a Parisian night club in the 30’s. I’ve heard a little Mark O’Connor since he was on a Sharon Isbin CD I heard and I like Django Reinhardt a ton too.
Always loved it. Saw Stephane Grappelli around 1990. Too awesome for words.
I discovered these dudes by total accident since they were on a Paste Magazine sampler a few years back but I used to study their music often when I was in college. Makes me wish I were back in Galway enjoying a Guinness while enjoying the company of friends.
Deep into researching and correcting some of my genealogy… my mother’s side… and what I notice is how disruptive the move to North America in colonial times was for family histories.
Tracing back ancestry in this country is pretty straightforward through the 1850 census, and even before then the older states had ways of recording vital data. Back around the time of the first census (1790) paths start to break down. The big gap, once bridged, from 1850 back to the Revolutionary war, gives way to immigration stories. For those of us with a Colonial past the good news is if you can find someone from New England, as the historical societies up there have been relentlessly researching this stuff for a century, all to prove the elusive claim that one’s ancestors was on the Mayflower.
For those of us with a European ancestry I’m noticing quite a range of quality in the recording of the past. This has driven home to me the idea of a “name” and exactly what one name is supposed to mean, and why it was important to pass it on.
Also, the impact of illiteracy gets felt very quickly once one goes before the 20th century. I doubt if our goal of universal education and literacy is adequately appreciated by most people today.
And speak of appreciating new things… in the censuses of the before universal suffrage the census takers had to record who in the household had a voting franchise - often just the male head. Back then voting meant something more to people, I think, then it does today. I wonder, when I see the low voter turnouts that we have in most elections, if voting rights were taking away from a majority of Americans would they miss them?
Hey watch it there.. Budweiser is my beer of choice. All y’all can brag about your $10 six packs of micro-brew with the catchy name from wherever that’s been sitting in the cooler for god knows how long. I always just ask for a cold fresh Budweiser.
Hey watch it there.. Budweiser is my beer of choice. All y’all can brag about your $10 six packs of micro-brew with the catchy name from wherever that’s been sitting in the cooler for god knows how long. I always just ask for a cold fresh Budweiser.
Hey watch it there.. Budweiser is my beer of choice. All y’all can brag about your $10 six packs of micro-brew with the catchy name from wherever that’s been sitting in the cooler for god knows how long. I always just ask for a cold fresh Budweiser.
As long as you’re not drinking Natty Light. Don’t know how my dad drank that stuff. I don’t mind going cheap. I like a Bud occasionally too but Dogfish just hits the spot some time even if you can get two or even three Buds for the same price at the bar.
Prosecutor shot down in the street in Texas by two men in tactical vests who get away. And another school shooting, this time in Atlanta. School in lockdown. A little more here. Some sources says student seriously hurt, other injured was a teacher who suffered cuts and bruises. Something of an update here—appears not to be a mass shooting. Return here for updates.
Saw this today. I was beyond words and waiting for my x-ray results.
Saw this today. I was beyond words and waiting for my x-ray results.
We live in a weird country.
While the NRA talks hypothetically about needing guns to oppose “tyranny” some people look around and see that “tyranny” is already here, so they feel perfectly justified using their firearms to fight it. What defines tyranny? depends on who you ask and when you ask them.
On that video, like on the one kicking of this thread, I get the Youtube adverts popping up as usual, but all wingnuttia in flavor. “Should Obama Be Impeached?” this time. Before it was something about Obama taking your guns away.
Youtube has to be paid to put these adverts on. So who is paying for these ads?
On that video, like on the one kicking of this thread, I get the Youtube adverts popping up as usual, but all wingnuttia in flavor. “Should Obama Be Impeached?” this time. Before it was something about Obama taking your guns away.
Youtube has to be paid to put these adverts on. So who is paying for these ads?
For those of us with a European ancestry I’m noticing quite a range of quality in the recording of the past. This has driven home to me the idea of a “name” and exactly what one name is supposed to mean, and why it was important to pass it on.
I dig. Through the efforts of a distant cousin, either my paternal family (Underkoffler) got here in 1768 or 1778. Records suck.
I think my maternal family (La Salvia) got here in 1890ish. No records, and the damned acculturation means I’ll probably never know. (An Italian family who gives up making their own pasta and sauce in roughly 1954 in favor of pre-made pasta and Ragu. Oy fucking veh!)
The paternal-maternal (GGP Klinger) and the maternal-maternal (GGP Insana) — that is, great-grandfathers’ — families both got here in 1903, which is a giant freaking coincidence, coming from Sicily and Slovakia. Who knew?
My mother’s cousin did ton’s of research in the ‘70’s and 80’s eventually finding our lost relatives in Germany and joining the family trees. They came over and we had our first and only family reunion.
IT took two trips to Bavaria to do it. He found people who let him copy their “pedigree” books from Nazi times and searched thru grave yards. Eventually, he accidentally parked in a reserved parking place and the owner was our relative.
It was his retirement project. It wasn’t as difficult as it is for some people because the family has pretty much stayed around and in the little town our ancestor that emigrated from Germany settled in. His grave and stuff are still there.
Tried to find relatives when I was in Ireland. My grandmother’s maiden name isn’t too common but the only people I found with the name were far away from where I was studying. Her mother’s maiden name is much more common and it would have been a circus trying to contact those people. Now on the bright side, I did get a history of her maiden name for free which was awesome. Haven’t really bothered looking on my mom’s/Eastern European side of the family since there are so many different spellings and the translating would be tough. Plus I don’t even know where they came from in those countries. I know that there are some relatives still left since my great aunt apparently visited some of them while she was in college in the late 50’s but she died before I got into this stuff and I have no idea who on that side of the family I’d talk to if I wanted more info since that side of the family isn’t as tightly knit as my Dad’s side.
The family story I was told is that one of my ancestors was a big hero in the Austrian army, and as a reward for his service, was granted a stipend to send his descendants to school, a big deal back there and then.
But grandma Reba did not want to go to school. They told her that if she did not go to school, they would marry her off to some guy in Cleveland, Ohio.
She still refused to go to school and they put her on the boat in 1912.
A Montana Republican state lawmaker wants to give criminals the option of choosing “corporal punishment in lieu of incarceration.” According to Think Progress, the legislation is being proposed by Rep. Jerry O’Neil and would apply not just to misdemeanor crimes, but to some felonies as well.
The law states that “(f)or purposes of this section, ‘corporal punishment’ means the infliction of physical pain on a defendant to carry out the sentence negotiated between the judge and the defendant.” The law states that the exact nature of that pain shall be “commensurate with the severity, nature, and degree of the harm caused by the offender.”
The proposed law stipulates that the punishment shall be carried out by local sheriffs if the defendant is avoiding jail time or corrections personnel if the defendant is choosing the option to stay out of state prison.
There is no arguing with these people, let us just continue to get the word out, the GOP is the party of corporal punishment, gerrymandering, homophobia, misogyny, creationism, invasive ultrasound and “legitimate rape”.
Un fucking believable. I know the assholes at NRO define themselves entirely by the need to be in constant opposition to Obama … but goddamn.
I read the article before commenting to make sure there was no context that made their statements less ridiculous.
There wasn’t. The Nazis did have an appeal to a lot of Germans at the time, and not every single thing they did (Autobahns, paid vacations, package tours for the working classes) was completely evil, but WTF?
I just read the article and I have no clue. Just none. What the fuck. I thought maybe the quote was out of context, because even for NRO… jesus.
Nazism may have been an ideology to which the United States was — and to which the president is — implacably opposed, but it is hardly “senseless.” By the early 1930s, the Nazi party had hundreds of thousands of devoted members and repeatedly attracted a third of the votes in German elections; its political leaders campaigned on a platform comprising 25 non-senseless points, including the “unification of all Germans,” a demand for “land and territory for the sustenance of our people,” and an assertion that “no Jew can be a member of the race.” Suffice it to say, many sensible Germans were persuaded.
What she is really, really saying is that the assertion that “new Jew can be a member of the race” is not senseless. It is. It is senseless in that races do not exist, it is senseless in that there is nothing to be gained and everything lost from attempts at racial division and so it is foolish, and it is senseless in the old term meaning that it is without compassion or empathy.
I have no idea what meaning she’s trying to construct for ‘senseless’ here. What she’s clearly trying to say is that Obama, by calling the violence ‘senseless’, is ignoring the Nazis philosophical and political groundwork for their ideology and that this is dangerous. It’s obvious that Obama is not doing that. Obama said “Those who experienced the horrors of the cattle cars, ghettos, and concentration camps have witnessed humanity at its very worst and know too well the pain of losing loved ones to senseless violence.” He was very clearly saying that the violence of the camps, of the Holocaust, was senseless.
The author is saying it wasn’t, that it made sense to murder Jews even while it detracted from the war effort.
Morning will be spent testing videoconference room connections between here and a few locations in Germany. Sure to be lots of fun since these rooms have been problematic at times since installation due to equipment failures, network bandwidth issues affecting signal quality, training issue, and dealing with multiple languages when troubleshooting issues. (English, Portuguese, German, and I only speak one of them half fluently.)
All this may be a blessing since it is already looking like a day that is going to have a pile of bad news in it.
On the lighter side, I got up today and found a mini Occupy movement. Both cats were lying in the shower stall for some odd reason. Must have been some sort of anti-water waste protest. (Water is for Drinking. Tongues are for Cleaning!) ;)
Hey if she needs a reminder to send you a present, what’s wrong with that?
I always send my sister a virtual cake on her FB wall every year. Other than that, we have nothing to do with each other.
Nahh ,, we gave up the exchanging gifts stuff once she had her daughter (and later, us our son) We’ve always been cordial but never really close, so neither of us knew what to get each other, so we decided to put the focus on (my) niece and (her) nephew, seeing we each only had one child
Actually (corporal punishment in lieu of incarceration) it would be kind of fascinating to see what percentage of those opt for a few whacks on the butt instead of a 10x10 cell for years
And no, I am not condoning nor advocating corporal punishment
I can see two logic chains leading to this:
1. They think that by substituting physical punishment and release they save money on incarceration; e.g. “If we beat them then we don’t have to worry about them being parasites and getting arrested for free room and board.”
2. They believe that infliction of physical pain is better aversion therapy for crime than incarceration. Which essentially is following a assumption that criminal punishment is simply punishment and not in any way an attempt at rehabilitation.
In any case I suspect the consequences of the proposal being adopted have not been thought through. And that is not even starting to address the psychological issues.
I can see two logic chains leading to this:
1. They think that by substituting physical punishment and release they save money on incarceration; e.g. “If we beat them then we don’t have to worry about them being parasites and getting arrested for free room and board.”
2. They believe that infliction of physical pain is better aversion therapy for crime than incarceration. Which essentially is following a assumption that criminal punishment is simply punishment and not in any way an attempt at rehabilitation.
In any case I suspect the consequences of the proposal being adopted have not been thought through. And that is not even starting to address the psychological issues.
In any case I suspect the consequences of the proposal being adopted have not been thought through. And that is not even starting to address the psychological issues.
Considering the vagueness of the proposal (it doesn’t define what sorts of ‘corporal punishment’), it’s unlikely to be signed into law anyhow. If it somehow does get signed into law, it will likely be challenged immediately in federal court for its constitutionality because it seems to challenge the 8th amendment.
Sending some of these folks over there to live in Singapore for a period of time would be interesting. They might learn something about cities, population densities, and the scope of law enforcement. However, they might learn some lessons that would not reflect well if enacted in the United States.
Considering the vagueness of the proposal (it doesn’t define what sorts of ‘corporal punishment’), it’s unlikely to be signed into law anyhow. If it somehow does get signed into law, it will likely be challenged immediately in federal court for its constitutionality because it seems to challenge the 8th amendment.
And Jackson vs Bishop decision was a specific case involving corporal punishment in a state prison system.
I suspect that the legislator who put up the bill was not familiar with the applicable case law. And a few minutes in Google looking up the 8th Amendment finds you a lot of information indicating that such a bill would need a lot more thought. Of course, this could also just be grandstanding for his electoral base, in which case he is just wasting legislative time for whatever committee ends up ignoring the bill.
Good morning! I’ve always wanted to buy text expander software for my computer but have never gotten around to it. What drove me to buy one today? The fact that it’s cumbersome to type out the wingnut code on LGF (square brackets don’t come naturally to me, I always start typing angle brackets).
I’d met him a few times before. Always gracious and quick with a quip or two.
He was a towering figure in NYC politics and helped steward the city following the fiscal disaster of the 1970s. He began the arduous task of revitalizing the city, but was always cognizant that he answered to the voters. “How’m I doing” wasn’t just a catch phrase. He really did want to know what people thought of him and the job he was doing.
And no matter what you thought of him or his politics, you could never say that he didn’t love the City.
Monthly unemployment figures out, and the rate ticked back up to 7.9% as 159k joined the ranks of the employed. The number would have been better if governments (fed/state/local) hadn’t shed another 9,000 jobs.
The BLS also revised upwards the November and December figures, but all the focus from the right is that the U3 rate rose but it’s interesting that the U6 rate didn’t.
It also marks yet another consecutive month of job gains (though not nearly as strong enough to really bring down the unemployment rates).
Of course, this could also just be grandstanding for his electoral base, in which case he is just wasting legislative time for whatever committee ends up ignoring the bill.
The prosecutor, Mark E. Hasse, worked in the Kaufman County district attorney’s office in Kaufman, a town of 6,800 people about 35 miles from Dallas. He was shot several times shortly before 9 a.m. as he walked in an employee parking lot about a block from the courthouse.
The authorities said the suspect or suspects got out of a Ford Taurus, opened fire on Mr. Hasse and then returned to the car and drove away. Investigators were trying to determine why Mr. Hasse was targeted and if the shooting had anything to do with cases he had prosecuted.
“I’ve been doing this 43 years, and I’ve never seen anything like this,” said David A. Byrnes, the Kaufman County sheriff.
Mr. Hasse, 57, was the county’s lead felony prosecutor and a well-respected assistant district attorney. He received his law degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas and in the 1980s served as a prosecutor in the Dallas County district attorney’s office, where he had been the chief of the organized-crime section.
Kaufman County prosecutors have been involved in investigations of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas prison gang. In November, federal officials in Houston thanked a number of local agencies for their work — including Kaufman County prosecutors — when more than 30 senior leaders and other members of the gang were indicted on federal racketeering charges.
Officials said they were reviewing Mr. Hasse’s current cases — as many as 400 of them — and previous ones for leads.
Lawyers and prosecutors throughout North Texas were stunned by the attack. The Dallas County district attorney, Craig Watkins, sent an e-mail encouraging his employees to exercise caution.
The SPLC notes that the Aryan Brotherhood in Prison is one of the largest and most dangerous gangs operating in prisons across the nation. But it’s not a hate group in the traditional sense either, as they’ll do business with whoever they think will help them gain power, even if means working with the likes of Mexican drug cartels.
Has it ever happened that a stay-at-home mom had to fight off a mob of swarming gangbanger home invaders with an AR-15? In actual real life, and the mom was not a drug dealer or a meth cooker?
Haas it ever happened that a stay-at-home mom had to fight off a mob of swarming gangbanger home invaders with an AR-15? In actual real life, and the mom was not a drug dealer or a meth cooker?
I was going to say yes, but then noticed your qualifier in bold :)
Has it ever happened that a stay-at-home mom had to fight off a mob of swarming gangbanger home invaders with an AR-15? In actual real life, and the mom was not a drug dealer or a meth cooker?
Nobody ever wants to answer the question about what kind of gun you get to defend against your husband and his gun.
Nobody ever wants to answer the question about what kind of gun you get to defend against your husband and his gun.
Damn straight. If Ms. Trotter wants to cut down on violence against women, she could start by taking a look at which political parties, down the years, have implemented changes that have improved the the situation of the fairer sex.
A suicide bomber got as far as the screening area when he blew up. At least 3 dead.
Horrible that three died, but congrats to the security personnel for stopping a greater tragedy. If the security people died stopping this monster, they’re all heroes.
From earlier in the thread: there is no arguing with these people, we just have to keep getting the word out that the GOP is the party of corporal punishment, homophobia, xenophobia, misogyny, religious fundamentalism and gun fetishism.
Deep into researching and correcting some of my genealogy… my mother’s side… and what I notice is how disruptive the move to North America in colonial times was for family histories.
For those of us with a European ancestry I’m noticing quite a range of quality in the recording of the past. This has driven home to me the idea of a “name” and exactly what one name is supposed to mean, and why it was important to pass it on.
A cousin of mine did my father’s side back to when they moved to North America and her’s was relatively easy, as the family stayed in one placed for 400 years. I don’t think she ever went further back than our arrival.
My mother’s side would be tougher as her parents moved here after WWI.
You know, many years ago when I applied for a state government job, we had to note on the application whether we had ever belonged to a group that “advocated the violent overthrow of the government.” We laughed at this over-the-top question, left over from the red-scare fifties, but now I am seeing tweets that … advocate the violent overthrow of the government. So weird.
You know, many years ago when I applied for a state government job, we had to note on the application whether we had ever belonged to a group that “advocated the violent overthrow of the government.” We laughed at this over-the-top question, left over from the red-scare fifties, but now I am seeing tweets that … advocate the violent overthrow of the government. So weird.
The sad part is they would primary well in gerrymandered red districts.
The SPLC notes that the Aryan Brotherhood in Prison is one of the largest and most dangerous gangs operating in prisons across the nation. But it’s not a hate group in the traditional sense either, as they’ll do business with whoever they think will help them gain power, even if means working with the likes of Mexican drug cartels.
There’s been a fairly big push against the AB recently. Most significant, one of their higher members, Terry Sillers, turned within the past three or four months and is in witness protection. So there’s a big two-part reason for the attack (actually I think it’s attacks, but so far the others haven’t been deadly.) There’s the counter-strike against the federal push, and there’s the specific strike against those who were or were alleged to be involved in turning and hiding Sillers.
Personal expectation is that this is going to get worse. Personal suspicion is that at some point the link I think exists between AB and TP gets exposed. That’s when things get interesting.
You know, many years ago when I applied for a state government job, we had to note on the application whether we had ever belonged to a group that “advocated the violent overthrow of the government.” We laughed at this over-the-top question, left over from the red-scare fifties, but now I am seeing tweets that … advocate the violent overthrow of the government. So weird.
This time the Red(state)s are real, and we see them constantly posting to Twitter and blogs about their hatred for our president.
Alabama bus driver’s memorial is tomorrow—nutcase and his hostage are still chillin’ in the bunker. LE seems to have a good tight lid on the scene and their public statements.
Right. Because having to pay a $750 fine is just like being sent to a concentration camp, forced labor (breaking rocks), and seeing your family executed over time before which you are gassed with poisonous gas if not shot point blank in the head by an SS officer.
“There are some people in politics and in the press who can’t be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that’s regrettable. It’s regrettable for our political system and for the people who serve our government in very dangerous, difficult circumstances.”
Alabama bus driver’s memorial is tomorrow—nutcase and his hostage are still chillin’ in the bunker. LE seems to have a good tight lid on the scene and their public statements.
Waiting out the nutcase might be the safest thing to do for the kid, but it sure doesn’t make for good TV.
I hope everything turns out ok for that little boy.
The first big point from all this is that given the likely gridlock on tax reform and fiscal reform, immigration reform is our best chance to increase America’s economic dynamism. We should normalize the illegals who are here, create a legal system for low-skill workers and bend the current reform proposals so they look more like the Canadian system, which tailors the immigrant intake to regional labor markets and favors high-skill workers.
The second big conclusion is that if we can’t pass a law this year, given the overwhelming strength of the evidence, then we really are a pathetic basket case of a nation.
Nazism may have been an ideology to which the United States was — and to which the president is — implacably opposed, but it is hardly “senseless.” By the early 1930s, the Nazi party had hundreds of thousands of devoted members and repeatedly attracted a third of the votes in German elections; its political leaders campaigned on a platform comprising 25 non-senseless points, including the “unification of all Germans,” a demand for “land and territory for the sustenance of our people,” and an assertion that “no Jew can be a member of the race.” Suffice it to say, many sensible Germans were persuaded.
— Eliana Johnson, National Review
Nazism may have been an ideology to which the United States was — and to which the president is — implacably opposed, but it is hardly “senseless.” By the early 1930s, the Nazi party had hundreds of thousands of devoted members and repeatedly attracted a third of the votes in German elections; its political leaders campaigned on a platform comprising 25 non-senseless points, including the “unification of all Germans,” a demand for “land and territory for the sustenance of our people,” and an assertion that “no Jew can be a member of the race.” Suffice it to say, many sensible Germans were persuaded.
— Eliana Johnson, National Review
What the actual fuck?
I’d offer more of a reaction, but I’m in the middle of a confernce call.
I’m pretty sure this is actually a universal rule. If you’re ever thinking about defending the Nazis in your article, don’t fucking defend the Nazis in your article, you goddamned imbecile.
Yeah. They don’t even have a minor grasp of the establishment clause. If one were to include religion in schools it means ALL religions and no religions.
I’m pretty sure this is actually a universal rule. If you’re ever thinking about defending the Nazis in your article, don’t fucking defend the Nazis in your article, you goddamned imbecile.
I’m pretty sure this is actually a universal rule. If you’re ever thinking about defending the Nazis in your article, don’t fucking defend the Nazis in your article, you goddamned imbecile.
The important thing is to attack BHO whenever possible. Even if it means prissily picking at the word “senseless” in the context of Nation Socialism, a doctrine which made no fucking sense.*
*unless you were a senselessly racist fucker that believed in racist unicorn economics as a solution to society’s ills.
From earlier in the thread: there is no arguing with these people, we just have to keep getting the word out that the GOP is the party of corporal punishment, homophobia, xenophobia, misogyny, religious fundamentalism and gun fetishism.
A good liberal thinks the 3 branches of government are Welfare, Food Stamps and Unemployment!! #tgdn
— Obama Will Screw Us (@obamascrewingus) February 1, 2013
And a good republican thinks there should only be one branch of government and it should be ruled by a king appointed by god (or one of his humble minions here on earth).
And a good republican thinks there should only be one branch of government and it should be ruled by a king appointed by god (or one of his humble minions here on earth).
Here is what get’s me about the surge in gun and ammo sales.
You know when some people hear it is going to snow they run out and buy milk and other essentials, but mostly milk. Perhaps Southern Lizards will not of heard of this phenom. Anytime a big snow storm is predicted, stores will run out of milk.
Anyway, if this happens every day or even every other day, eventually people figure that the weatherman is “crying wolf” and quit buying milk.
Here is what get’s me about the surge in gun and ammo sales.
You know when some people hear it is going to snow they run out and buy milk and other essentials, but mostly milk. Perhaps Southern Lizards will not of heard of this phenom. Anytime a big snow storm is predicted, stores will run out of milk.
WE’RE ABOUT TO GET SNOWED IN! EVERYONE HURRY TO GO BUY PERISHABLE FOOD!
Nazism may have been an ideology to which the United States was — and to which the president is — implacably opposed, but it is hardly “senseless.” By the early 1930s, the Nazi party had hundreds of thousands of devoted members and repeatedly attracted a third of the votes in German elections; its political leaders campaigned on a platform comprising 25 non-senseless points, including the “unification of all Germans,” a demand for “land and territory for the sustenance of our people,” and an assertion that “no Jew can be a member of the race.” Suffice it to say, many sensible Germans were persuaded.
— Eliana Johnson, National Review
Yes, some of their policies did appeal to a lot of Germans, they offered a lot of things that sound “sensible” to our ears, (Autobahns, paid vacation, package tours for the working classes), they promoted a meritocracy over the priveleges of the class system, etc.
They appealed to the people’s desire for stability and order in a time of economic crisis and political strife that was paralyzing the country.
And they also appealed to an existing anti-Semitism, but in doing so, promoted it to an ideology and a body of legislation banning Jews from intermarriage, professional practices and restricting their property rights.
It was 60 degrees on Tuesday. Now it’s 26. Good god, NoVa pick something and be done with it. I don’t like being teased thinking that spring’s just around the corner and then being reminded that no we still have a month plus of Winter left.
Yes, some of their policies did appeal to a lot of Germans, they offered a lot of things that sound “seinsible” to our ears, (Autobahns, paid vacation, package tours for the working classes), they promoted a meritocracy over the priveleges of the class system, etc.
They appealed to the peoples’ desire for stability and order in a time of economic crisis and political strife that was paralyzing the country.
And they also appealed to an existing anti-Semitism, but in doing so, promoted it to an ideology and a body of legislation banning Jews from intermarriage, professional practices and restricting their property rights.
So WTF? I mean, WTFityFingF?
I have a hard time with the “sensible” insertion as well. It’s just not right.
Conservatives are such pinheads. And I apologize for generalizing to any sane conservative here but my god man. You don’t want to be called racist or homophobic? Don’t say racist or homophobic crap.
Yeah unfortunately true. I always laugh at the one because I want to know what we libs are. Are we white supremacist assholes or diversity freaks? I mean we can’t be both.
Sheesh imagine if Obama had the Marine Barracks bombing that Reagan did or heaven forbid 9/11. Don’t think for a second that wouldn’t be used to push for immediate impeachment and then removal.
I have a hard time with the “sensible” insertion as well. It’s just not right.
In the sense of “not everything they did was pure evil”. But it does not mean that they were not evil in the general sense.
The only point of this article is to take Obama to task for something he said.
If he came out and told Americans not to eat yellow snow, we would hear Fox announcers first complaining that the Government has no right to tell us what kind of snow we could eat followed by Koch Brothers-funded expert studies of the health benefits of doing so…
In the sense of “not everything they did was pure evil”. But it does not mean that they were not evil in the general sense.
The only point of this article is to take Obama to task for something he said.
If he came out and told Americans not to eat yellow snow, we would hear Fox announcers first complaining that the Government has no right to tell us what kind of snow we could eat followed by Koch Brothers-funded expert studies of the health benefits of doing so…
Is ok, most young people thing their parents are clue-less.
Probably not the yahoos we’re seeing on twitter. I insist on assuming that wingnut kids did not have sensible parents because the alternative would be too awful.
@gus_802 That you believe anyone who points out black failure is a member of the Klan shows the power of the left in demonizing ideas.
— Paul Kersey (@sbpdl) February 1, 2013
Demonizing ideas.
Maybe he’s “just asking questions.”
These people are so predictable. It’s like they all share one brain.
Yeah, and they lump everyone under “black” as if all black people are exactly the same no matter what. Maybe Paul falls under the white failure that is a trailer trash redneck, wife beating, beer drinking lout. So every damn white person is a fucking inbred, trailer living, welfare taking, racist piece of shit. And I say that lovingly as a white person. Now where is my wifebeater tee shirt and who stole the skirting from around my house?
That’s part of what college is for. Zomg indoctrination.
Great point. Some of these people are at stage of severe worldview handicap from growing up in conservative culture, but before the stage of life where they meet people different from themselves and realize that their parents are assholes.
Great point. Some of these people are at stage of severe worldview handicap from growing up in conservative culture, but before the stage of life where they meet people different from themselves and realize that their parents are assholes.
The workplace is another great place for reality checks.
6% over four years? Isn’t that pretty much in line with inflation?
Seems pretty normal to me. I love how we couldn’t blame Bush’s actions for the gas prices but this dipshit wants to directly blame Obama for the price of beer.
Great point. Some of these people are at stage of severe worldview handicap from growing up in conservative culture, but before the stage of life where they meet people different from themselves and realize that their parents are assholes.
Shit, it was helpful for me and I come from a pretty liberal background. This is the “indoctrination” that they worry about though. It’s not indoctrination though. It’s a slap in the face that there are other ideas than the ones you’ve been hearing your whole life before that point. Of course wackjobs seem to think that’s indoctrination when it’s really part of maturity.
Here’s a little fantasy for you to ponder: what if one of our senior foreign policy officials accidentally swallowed some sodium pentothal (aka “truth serum”) before some public hearing or press conference, and started speaking the truth about one of those issues where prevarication, political correctness, and obfuscation normally prevail? You know: what if they started saying in public all those things that they probably believe in private? What sorts of “inconvenient truths” might suddenly get revealed?
In that spirit, here’s my Top Five Truths You Won’t Hear Any U.S. Official Admit.
#5: “We do a lot of stupid things in foreign policy. Get used to it.”
Seems pretty normal to me. I love how we couldn’t blame Bush’s actions for the gas prices but this dipshit wants to directly blame Obama for the price of beer.
So, basically, more innumeracy from the Fox crowd.
So, basically, more innumeracy from the Fox crowd.
Yeah. I really haven’t noticed any real dramatic changes in beer prices since I turned 21 in the later part of the Bush years. My beer expenses go up when I feel like being a beer snob and buy some IPAs as opposed to something cheaper like Rolling Rock but there really hasn’t been a that’s really not a dramatic increase at all. It’s like a six pack going from being 7.00$ to 7.25ish.
Yeah. I really haven’t noticed any real dramatic changes in beer prices since I turned 21 in the later part of the Bush years. My beer expenses go up when I feel like being a beer snob and buy some IPAs as opposed to something cheaper like Rolling Rock but there really hasn’t been a that’s really not a dramatic increase at all. It’s like a six pack going from being 7.00$ to 7.25ish.
There are always the ever increasing (it seems) vice taxes imposed by municipalities and States.
The workplace is another great place for reality checks.
Depends on the workplace. When I was at Sears headquarters years ago the black people I worked with were all less educated and in less responsible positions than their paler peers. This was because Sears would give people who had shitty lives in bad Chicago neighborhoods a chance, and they succeeded in their positions and built better lives, but it created a visible division in workforce ability that an ignorant conservative could point to. It’s been years, and this is probably no longer the case with them in Hoffman Estates now.
At my current position two of three black males are mailroom staff, but we have several black and a couple of Indian females in positions of responsibility, so the environmental message isn’t quite right there either but it’s better.
I think college is the best place to learn that we’re all alike, because you’re exposed to people from different cultures and financial backgrounds that are all there to learn the same things you are because they have the same drives that you do. Plus young people tend to lack the ability to keep their laughter in when someone says something they think is stupid, so if you keep saying stupid things, you’re surrounded by laughter and derision and won’t get invited to the right parties.
Disclosure:I didn’t go to college, but was lucky enough to be raised by sensible blue-collar people who taught me right from wrong.
Yeah. I really haven’t noticed any real dramatic changes in beer prices since I turned 21 in the later part of the Bush years. My beer expenses go up when I feel like being a beer snob and buy some IPAs as opposed to something cheaper like Rolling Rock but there really hasn’t been a that’s really not a dramatic increase at all. It’s like a six pack going from being 7.00$ to 7.25ish.
Didn’t read the story, but i this an average of all beer prices over enough of a sample size (in years) then it is the increase in specialty beer bringing up the average. Or the increase in fuel/transportation costs.
It’s interesting. Miller and Bud, both part of larger conglomerates, increased their prices over the past couple of years. Modelo didn’t go along with the increases, and instead gained market share.
Now, Budweiser is about to try and buy the other 50% ownership stake in Modelo they don’t have.
Consolidating the market means the chances are that prices will go up for the big label brewer products.
Depends on the workplace. When I was at Sears headquarters years ago the black people I worked with were all less educated and in less responsible positions than their paler peers. This was because Sears would give people who had shitty lives in bad Chicago neighborhoods a chance, and they succeeded in their positions and built better lives, but it created a visible division in workforce ability that an ignorant conservative could point to. It’s been years, and this is probably no longer the case with them in Hoffman Estates now.
At my current position two of three black males are mailroom staff, but we have several black and a couple of Indian females in positions of responsibility, so the environmental message isn’t quite right there either but it’s better.
I think college is the best place to learn that we’re all alike, because you’re exposed to people from different cultures and financial backgrounds that are all there to learn the same things you are because they have the same drives that you do. Plus young people tend to lack the ability to keep their laughter in when someone says something they think is stupid, so if you keep saying stupid things, you’re surrounded by laughter and derision and won’t get invited to the right parties.
Disclosure:I didn’t go to college, but was lucky enough to be raised by sensible blue-collar people who taught me right from wrong.
My last job was as a cashier in a retail store. It was a big reality check for me. You learn alot working with the general public.
Until the “liberals” point out the failures of Herman Cain, of course.
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See, that’s the damndest thing about wingnuts. They’ll generalize about races blah blah but then you point out the actions of someone like Cain, Marco Rubio, and it’s OMG YOU LIBERALS ARE THE REAL RACISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Same thing with gender. Rush Limbaugh and other wingnuts put down feminists and feminism for years but the second John McCain made Sarah Palin his running mate, any criticism of Sarah Palin from the left was called sexist. It was the most pathetic ever to watch a man who popularized the term feminazi acted like liberals who criticized a candidate who happened to be a woman’s knowledge and experience on the key issues were sexist pigs.
That sound you hear is a bunch of Texas legislators laughing at these Idaho clowns. Not only do we allow guns in the Capitol building, but having a concealed carry permit lets you avoid the metal detectors.
That sound you hear is a bunch of Texas legislators laughing at these Idaho clowns. Not only do we allow guns in the Capitol building, but having a concealed carry permit lets you avoid the metal detectors.
So you’re saying that they have been very lucky so far, or do they have additional security protections other than a metal detector?
Idaho allowed a governor’s executive order banning firearms from the Capitol to lapse. The state allows firearms, but bags are subject to search.
They’ve wigged out over the guy snooping around legislators’ desks and joining in with a Cub Scout tour of the building.
In reality, it’s hypocrisy in action - as they’re for an unfettered 2d in the abstract, but the moment facing a concrete example of a security threat, they realize that it’s not exactly to their liking.
Man that really leads to crux to my crazy theory that Wayne LaPierre and the rest of the NRA are stuck in the 1990’s somehow. Maybe they’ll blame President Clinton next.
My last job was as a cashier in a retail store. It was a big reality check for me. You learn alot working with the general public.
I’ll bet you knew about the crazy percentage pretty quickly. I have a side business that has me dealing with a public that leans Social Conservative, and I encounter people who are absolutely bonkers all the time. Unlike the Conservatives that we see hyperventilating in the news, I can do business with anyone who isn’t looking to rip me off, and offer liberal refunds if a sale doesn’t go smoothly, even if the person is so conservative they’re gibbering like a madman.
This is the reason I post under someone else’s name and profession here. Some of my customers would have aneurysms if they really knew what I think.
Man that really leads to crux to my crazy theory that Wayne LaPierre and the rest of the NRA are stuck in the 1990’s somehow. Maybe they’ll blame President Clinton next.
They’ll blame “Clinton” in general since that allows them to tar both Bill, Hillary, and DeWitt.
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Idaho allowed a governor’s executive order banning firearms from the Capitol to lapse. The state allows firearms, but bags are subject to search.
They’ve wigged out over the guy snooping around legislators’ desks and joining in with a Cub Scout tour of the building.
In reality, it’s hypocrisy in action - as they’re for an unfettered 2d in the abstract, but the moment facing a concrete example of a security threat, they realize that it’s not exactly to their liking.
Isn’t it interesting that current Conservative positions make previous Conservative positions seem relatively sane? These clowns even made GWB look pretty OK in retrospect. We can’t give them an inch, because they’ll just keep getting worse.
I’ll bet you knew about the crazy percentage pretty quickly. I have a side business that has me dealing with a public that leans Social Conservative, and I encounter people who are absolutely bonkers all the time. Unlike the Conservatives that we see hyperventilating in the news, I can do business with anyone who isn’t looking to rip me off, and offer liberal refunds if a sale doesn’t go smoothly, even if the person is so conservative they’re gibbering like a madman.
This is the reason I post under someone else’s name and profession here. Some of my customers would have aneurysms if they really knew what I think.
I found most people to be pretty kewl. I also became very aware of how bad some people are at communicating. Managers (who are suppossed to be good at such things) were usually the worst and pissed-off the most customers.
“It’s not what you say, but how you say it”
I learned that if you treat most people with respect, you’ll get it in return.
DeWitt Clinton: America’s first socialist commie./(Hey, he popularized internal improvements.)
According to Daniel Walker Howe (2007), Clinton is an authentic but largely forgotten hero of American democracy. Howe explains, “The infrastructure he worked to create would transform American life, enhancing economic opportunity, political participation, and intellectual awareness.”
Sounds like a socialist commie. Probably a secret Muslim as well paving the way for sharia law.
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According to Daniel Walker Howe (2007), Clinton is an authentic but largely forgotten hero of American democracy. Howe explains, “The infrastructure he worked to create would transform American life, enhancing economic opportunity, political participation, and intellectual awareness.”
Sounds like a socialist commie. Probably a secret Muslim as well paving the way for sharia law.
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I believe he was governor of New York when the Erie Canal was constructed. Always like reading about forgotten people like him.
Isn’t it interesting that current Conservative positions make previous Conservative positions seem relatively sane? These clowns even made GWB look pretty OK in retrospect. We can’t give them an inch, because they’ll just keep getting worse.
‘cause they aren’t conservative —they are bat-shit Whacko™ paranoid theocrats.
Labels and old definitions don’t really apply anymore
I found most people to be pretty kewl. I also became very aware of how bad some people are at communicating. Managers (who are suppossed to be good at such things) were usually the worst and pissed-off the most customers.
“It’s not what you say, but how you say it”
I learned that if you treat most people with respect, you’ll get it in return.
Sounds like you had a good crowd. Minority neighborhood?
Managers that cannot communicate at all are very common, and very unfortunate. I’m recently rid of a really bad one and no longer have any stress in my life.
Sounds like you had a good crowd. Minority neighborhood?
Managers that cannot communicate at all are very common, and very unfortunate. I’m recently rid of a really bad one and no longer have any stress in my life.
mixed neighborhood.
Then again, I’ve had a lot of retail and customer service experience. I used to work commission retail sales. You learn how to handle customers yourself if you want repeat business.
I found most people to be pretty kewl. I also became very aware of how bad some people are at communicating. Managers (who are suppossed to be good at such things) were usually the worst and pissed-off the most customers.
“It’s not what you say, but how you say it”
I learned that if you treat most people with respect, you’ll get it in return.
True. But you also have to be aware that there are those out there who do not treat others with respect or show any empathy towards them. Dealing with them is one of the challenges.
Looking at his timeline and follows, there’s a TON of white supremacist material there - ranging from tweets about “white genocide” to retweeting VDare (who he cites heavily in his book he’s selling via Amazon), and at least a dozen other neo-Nazi related hate groups.
Of course, he probably considers himself a “race realist”, like the rest of these scum.
Wonder what made Brown decide not to run. Thought it was certain he’d run again after Warren beat him since it seemed to me that Massachusetts voters liked him okay enough but they liked Warren just as much and they didn’t want to give the Republicans another seat in the Senate.
Actually the word that came to my mind was interesting. How interesting. Not so many months ago he wanted the job. He’s the poll leader even now.
So what happened to make him change his mind?
That’s what I’m wondering. He’d benefit from running in a special election since turnout would be lower. Higher turnout I think played a big part in Warren’s beating him. Not the whole story- the bullshit about Warren’s heritage didn’t help him or his image but still.
Looking at his timeline and follows, there’s a TON of white supremacist material there - ranging from tweets about “white genocide” to retweeting VDare (who he cites heavily in his book he’s selling via Amazon), and at least a dozen other neo-Nazi related hate groups.
Of course, he probably considers himself a “race realist”, like the rest of these scum.
Glenn Beck is none-too-pleased about the the Pentagon’s decision to lift the ban on women serving in front-line combat positions, calling it “the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard” because the purpose of the military is to kill and intimidate people … and no enemy is going to be intimidated “because we have a female Eskimo Hispanic dwarf cross-dresser and some handicapable, transgendered breast cancer survivor as a soldier on the front line”:
That’s what I’m wondering. He’d benefit from running in a special election since turnout would be lower. Higher turnout I think played a big part in Warren’s beating him. Not the whole story- the bullshit about Warren’s heritage didn’t help him or his image but still.
Maybe he is waiting for the governors race. If he were to lose to Markey/Lynch/?? this soon after losing to Warren then his political career would be in shambles. The governors race will put some distance between and there is a far greater track record of (R) governors than Senators to run on.
Maybe he is waiting for the governors race. If he were to lose to Markey/Lynch/?? this soon after losing to Warren then his political career would be in shambles. The governors race will put some distance between and there is a far greater track record of (R) governors than Senators to run on.
Could well be. It was my understanding that he initially wanted to use the special election that got him in the Senate originally to use that as a segway to run for governor but then he won so that changed everything.
“because we have a female Eskimo Hispanic dwarf cross-dresser and some handicapable, transgendered breast cancer survivor as a soldier on the front line”
Could well be. It was my understanding that he initially wanted to use the special election that got him in the Senate originally to use that as a segway to run for governor but then he won so that changed everything.
This may bode well for the (financial if not political) underdog Stephen Lynch. With the prospect of a tough/costly primary and general/special election all but removed.
Looking at his timeline and follows, there’s a TON of white supremacist material there - ranging from tweets about “white genocide” to retweeting VDare (who he cites heavily in his book he’s selling via Amazon), and at least a dozen other neo-Nazi related hate groups.
Of course, he probably considers himself a “race realist”, like the rest of these scum.
Maybe we should be worried about man-gun marriage instead of same sex marriage because people like this obviously care more about their guns than they do other people.
Well, here’s some medical research we hadn’t heard about. Generations Radio host Kevin Swanson, who last week delved memorably into feminist theory, tells us this week that “certain doctors and certain scientists” have researched the wombs of women on the pill and found “there are these little tiny fetuses, these little babies, that are embedded into the womb…Those wombs of women who have been on the birth control pill effectively have become graveyards for lots and lots of little babies.”
“certain doctors and certain scientists” known to the general populace as quacks
no enemy is going to be intimidated “because we have a female Eskimo Hispanic dwarf cross-dresser and some handicapable, transgendered breast cancer survivor as a soldier on the front line”:
But what if the female Eskimo Hispanic dwarf, etc has a gun? Most soldiers have guns I believe.
The capitalist in me cringes when I hear of a rare or collectible firearm being destroyed.
The others, I could care less.
You raise an important point. The collectibles should be sold to responsible collectors.
This stunt is wingnuts wanting to keep guns on the streets. These hopeless square-pegs think they’ll be better off if America collapses into gun violence.
Wow. The implications of this stunning “research” could be quite impactful. But first, do we have a record of these “women” and their wombs that were studied? And there would have to be many of these women with wombs so we could, you know, have a sufficient sample size from which to draw conclusions. Thousands of women participants would be required I think to regard the “research” findings of this study as sufficiently rigorous. And was the sample random?
You raise an important point. The collectibles should be sold to responsible collectors.
This stunt is wingnuts wanting to keep guns on the streets. These hopeless square-pegs think they’ll be better off if America collapses into gun violence.
If they can only be sold through dealers, there would be the b/g check and no loophole to worry about. That’s basically what the new regulations seek to do when passed.
[Link: www.aljazeera.com…]
Outside the presidential palace in Cairo
At first I thought the green blips were just digital noise but it looks like they’re some sort of lasers
“because we have a female Eskimo Hispanic dwarf cross-dresser and some handicapable, transgendered breast cancer survivor as a soldier on the front line”
[Link: www.aljazeera.com…]
Outside the presidential palace in Cairo
At first I thought the green blips were just digital noise but it looks like they’re some sort of lasers
If the next CPAC does not feature the published paper on this “research” the conference will have been an extreme disappointment. At a minimum, I expect these womb-examining researchers to be given prime speaking slots at the CPAC.
true, yet they seem to be taking history and distorting it in some twisted self-delusion projecting it onto themselves.
Yep, they put on a drama based on total fabrications to get attention and make themselves the center of their social world. I’m no college boy, but I believe this is called a histrionic personality disorder.
Citizens United, the conservative group that successfully sued to enable wealthy corporations to buy elections, also has it in for same-sex couples. Yet an amicus brief they recently filed in the Supreme Court backing the unconstitutional Defense of Marriage Act would not simply deny marriage equality to gay people, it calls upon the Supreme Court to toss out a landmark decision ending public school segregation in the District of Columbia and declare that the federal government is free to discriminate against minorities and women:
OK, Citizens United is a hate group. I have no problem with making that claim any more.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of women to keep and bear arms for said militia shall be infringed.
Hey by letting women serve in combat, we’re opening combat service to lesbian Latina Eskimo dwarf cancer survivors(forget the rest of idiot Beck’s spill). Seriously, that’s a legitimate point. If you think women civilians should be able to own these weapons, why shouldn’t women be allowed to serve in combat?
How come there’s no white history month? // Seriously, I’ve heard that asked. I mean I am inclined to agree with Morgan Freeman’s point about BHM but that’s because he’s actually making sense as opposed to parroting whiny right wing bullshit about how tough whitey has it these days.
How come there’s no white history month? // Seriously, I’ve heard that asked. I mean I am inclined to agree with Morgan Freeman’s point about BHM but that’s because he’s actually making sense as opposed to parroting whiny right wing bullshit about how tough whitey has it these days.
OT but I am always amused with how being pro gay rights is equated with being a Communist. We were discussing the idiot 49ers player who made the comment about how a gay teammate would not be welcomed on a forum for one of my favorite sports team and most of us agreed that Cullver at the very least was an idiot and that it would be no problem. So we had a drama queen accuse all of us of being anti-Christian commies. I think they’d be surprised if they saw the record of various Communist regimes on gay rights.
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I’ve heard that question asked as well. Then I look at all the things we learned about history in school and most of them involved white people.
Yeah it’s stupid. Honestly as a straight white dude, I am sick of people in my demographic complaining about minorities and women having more emphasis on their contribution to the American story. Kid brother was talking glowingly about Phyillis Wheatley, the first published black woman in the US.
And here I thought the RWNJs wanted to nuke the Middle East into a parking lot. Who knew?
Remind me again why Marco Rubio is a “serious voice” and better yet why he should be treated as one. It’s fine he disagrees with Hagel but this rhetoric is a load of crap and he knows it.
They’re going to be requesting federal and state reimbursement.
That’s an indication that the town doesn’t want to increase its own taxes to cover the costs, and are instead seeking federal and state funding to achieve their security goal. Watch that happen elsewhere in the country too.
But this isn’t the only kind of security measure that the town, or state of Connecticut are considering.
And security wont prevent guns from being brought in to a school, nor used in a school. All you have to do is see yesterday’s headlines to see how a student brought a handgun and nearly killed another student before being apprehended by a school guard in Georgia. The guard didn’t prevent the shooting, and some reports suggest that he had reloaded the gun before firing randomly and before he was apprehended. The school had two metal detectors, but it’s possible to avoid them since it’s a campus school - multiple buildings comprising the school property.
No, something has to be done besides put guards in the school (didn’t work), arm the school (didn’t work), fortify and install metal detectors (didn’t work).
He’s wrong until Black History is integrated with American History. My understanding is that Black History Month is one step in that direction
Yeah. True point. Anyhow, on that note, I really liked the unit we had on the Harlem Renaissance when I was in 11th grade. We read poems by Hughes, Cullen, McKay, and others. This poem by Dunbar from before the Harlem Renaissance is still one of my favorites.
We Wear the Mask
WE wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
Remind me again why Marco Rubio is a “serious voice” and better yet why he should be treated as one. It’s fine he disagrees with Hagel but this rhetoric is a load of crap and he knows it.
It’s all relative. A Republican would be better off listening to Rubio than if they had listened to a lot of other Republicans. Someone without that handicap should disregard them all.
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Reuters: But even the press in aggregate is not a friend to whistle-blowers, as its recent treatment of Snowden attests, what with the deep dives into his teen years (including photos), his education and employment history, his reputation as a loner and a “brainiac,” his pants-down hijinks, his online scribblings, his dancer girlfriend, his predilection for (in his own words) “post-coital Krispy Kremes.” Squeezing ...
June 4, 2013 -- In 2010, in the journal Nature, a pair of physicists at the Santa Fe Institute showed that when the population of a city doubles, economic productivity goes up by an average of 130 percent. Not only does total productivity increase with increased population, but so does per-capita productivity. Share This: In the latest issue of Nature Communications, researchers from the ...
Senior bankers guilty of reckless misconduct should be jailed, a long-awaited report on banking commissioned by the government has recommended. The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards was set up by Chancellor George Osborne last year after a number of scandals involving the industry. Jail reckless bankers, standards commission urgesThe cross-party group's fifth report attacked the lack of accountability of bankers and also said some ...
LE BOURGET, France — Boeing Co. won major orders from five customers for a stretched-out version of its popular 787 Dreamliner jet at the Paris Air Show Tuesday, further evidence of a strengthening market for more expensive long-haul jets.Boeing announced the formal launch of its 787-10 program at the Paris Air Show on Tuesday and says it already has commitments for 102 jets from ...
When Laura Gambrel, 22, of Zionsville, Ind., graduated from Indiana University in May, she wanted to keep the celebration pretty low key. She didn’t walk at the ceremony, nor did she have a party because she planned to go right back to the university this coming fall for grad school. It seemed only fitting then that the one thing her mother attempted to do ...
Are you uncomfortable with ambiguity? It's a common condition, but a highly problematic one. The compulsion to quell that unease can inspire snap judgments, rigid thinking, and bad decision-making. Fortunately, new research suggests a simple antidote for this affliction: Read more literary fiction. A trio of University of Toronto scholars, led by psychologist Maja Djikic, report that people who have just read a short ...
Dye her hair blonde and she's got a job at Fox News. Question: "A recent report shows that in 40 percent of American families with children, women are the primary earners, yet they continue to earn less than men. What does this say about society?" Marissa Powell: "I think we can relate this back to education, and how we are ... continuing to try ...
Whoever we are, whereever we're from, we should have noticed by now our behaviour is dumb, and if our chances are expected to improve, it's gonna take a lot more than trying to remove, the other race, or the other whatever, from the face of the planet altogether -- Dumb All Over, You Are What You Is