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Comment Re:War on Drugs (Score 1) 314

But just like in the war on drugs, there will be golden opportunities to scrape off a few bucks as the money goes flying around to build up a bureaucracy, buy more assault rifles and urban tanks, build more jails, and bamboozle the taxpayers. Follow the money.

Comment Re:PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN (Score 1) 763

>intellectually dishonest ... shill for the Democratic Party
Me and the WSJ, Damn. Who can you trust these days?

> it contained a number of other provisions they could never agree
Please bolster your intellectual honesty by providing specifics for the other half of the story, along with quality references, othewise you're just a regurgitating shrill shill.

Comment Re:PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN (Score 1) 763

And #15 According to the Joint Economic Committee the richest 1% have 21% of the money. So at least one thing is going right.

http://jec.senate.gov/public/?a=Files.Serve&File_id=91975589-257c-403b-8093-8f3b584a088c

U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee

"share of total income accrued by the
wealthiest 10 percent of households jumped from 34.6 percent in 1980 to 48.2 percent in
2008.1 Much of the spike was driven by the share of total income accrued by the richest 1
percent of households. Between 1980 and 2008, their share rose from 10.0 percent to 21.0
percent, making the United States as one of the most unequal countries in the world.2 Moving
even further up the income distribution, the share of income accruing to the wealthiest 0.1
percent of households – those with incomes of at least $1.7 million in 2008 – has grown sharply
as well."

Comment Re:PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN (Score 1) 763

Our brainwashing won't be complete until we vote for Palin in 2012.

From the Wall Street Journal (that bastion of the liberal media) Sept 29 (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703882404575520091126205702.html)

                    WASHINGTON—The Senate failed to advance legislation pushed by Democrats Tuesday to deter
                            U.S. corporations from moving jobs overseas, an effort Republicans derided as political theater.

                            The vote on bringing the bill to the floor for a full debate was 53 to 45, shy of the 60 votes needed to end a GOP-led filibuster.

                            Democrats held the roll-call vote as polls showed more voters were concerned about outsourcing.

                            "There is a clear difference between who we are fighting for and who they are fighting for," said Michigan Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow.

So Repubs stopped a bill to limit outsourcing, we sent a message by electing more Repubs, Obama seems to have gotten message, and now you're complaining. Not thumbing his nose, rather he and you are being led by the nose. Get used to the feel of that ring through your nasal septum.

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

  Bush/Cheney gave us the first (although Bush now claims it wasn't him), Homeland Security is working on the second, and i heard an awful lot of the third from various candidates before last Tuesday.

Comment Re:Time to throw this clown out (Score 1) 763

From the Wall Street Journal (that bastion of the liberal media) Sept 29 (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703882404575520091126205702.html)

          WASHINGTON—The Senate failed to advance legislation pushed by Democrats Tuesday to deter
              U.S. corporations from moving jobs overseas, an effort Republicans derided as political theater.

              The vote on bringing the bill to the floor for a full debate was 53 to 45, shy of the 60 votes needed to end a GOP-led filibuster.

              Democrats held the roll-call vote as polls showed more voters were concerned about outsourcing.

              "There is a clear difference between who we are fighting for and who they are fighting for," said Michigan Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow.

So Repubs stopped a bill to limit outsourcing, we sent a message by electing more Repubs, Obama seems to have gotten message, and now you're complaining. Not thumbing his nose, rather he and you are being led by the nose. Get used to the feel of that ring through your nasal septum.

Education

3rd-Grader Busted For Jolly Rancher Possession 804

theodp writes "A third-grader in a small Texas school district received a week's detention for merely possessing a Jolly Rancher. Leighann Adair, 10, was eating lunch Monday when a teacher confiscated the candy. Her parents said she was in tears when she arrived home later that afternoon and handed them the detention notice. But school officials are defending the sentence, saying the school was abiding by a state guideline that banned 'minimal nutrition' foods. 'Whether or not I agree with the guidelines, we have to follow the rules,' said school superintendent Jack Ellis."

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