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Why we can't have nice things
Author: Raine    Date: 01/15/2015 14:05:38

They messed with the Cadbury Egg.
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24 comments (Latest Comment: 01/15/2015 21:26:21 by Mondobubba)

Pissing Away Welfare
Author: BobR    Date: 2015-01-14 11:29:47

If there's one thing that conservatives can't stand, it's the thought that someone "lesser" than them is getting something that they don't deserve. With the exception of Republican politicians and corporations, they hate freeloaders. They live their lives just knowing that someone somewhere is getting a handout of someone else's hard-earned tax dollars, and it makes them livid.

That has to be the explanation. Otherwise, why would we be seeing red state after red state passing laws to require welfare recipients to take drug tests? They apparently already get irritated when someone uses food stamps and haven't sold all their belongings and reduced their clothes to rags. How dare someone still own jewelry or a cellphone and file for foodstamps? They aren't destitute if they still have something!
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40 comments (Latest Comment: 01/15/2015 00:04:52 by Raine)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 01/13/2015 11:11:54

Good Morning.

Today is our 208th day back in Iraq.

There have been no new American casualties in our ongoing wars.

We find this morning's Cost of War passing through:

$ 1,595, 590, 800, 000 .00

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36 comments (Latest Comment: 01/14/2015 01:09:34 by Will in Chicago)

They are terrorists. That's it.
Author: Raine    Date: 01/12/2015 14:02:44

{…}I address myself now to all the racists, Islamophobes, and anti-Semites:

One must not confuse extremists with Muslims. Madness has neither color nor religion. I want to make another point: stop painting everybody with the same brush, stop burning mosques or synagogues. You are attacking people. It won't bring back our dead, and it won't appease our families.

Thank you.

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41 comments (Latest Comment: 01/13/2015 00:34:24 by Will in Chicago)

Open Sunday
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 01/11/2015 14:47:16

Is there football, er, I mean HandEgg Ball, on teevee today? If so, discuss.
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Sorry, No.
Author: TriSec    Date: 01/10/2015 14:12:15

Good Morning.

You may have heard the news that a city near and dear to me has just been picked to be the United States candidate to host the Summer Olympic Games in 2024.
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4 comments (Latest Comment: 01/11/2015 12:02:10 by BobR)

Fluffy Friday
Author: wickedpam    Date: 01/09/2015 14:21:02

This week there was a horrific tragedy in France. Not like there aren't horrific things going on all over the world, but this one caught everyone's attention. It was a pointed attack on the idea of free expression and to some extent freedom of the press. Not sure if most American's realize that these are some things that are held sacred in more places then just here.
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41 comments (Latest Comment: 01/10/2015 01:06:08 by Raine)

Dynamic Insecurity
Author: Raine    Date: 01/08/2015 13:49:05

This week we welcomed in the 114th Congress. Both the House and the Senate are now controlled by the Republican party. As with every new congressional session the House and the Senate pass parliamentary rules to guide them for the year.

In the new rules is this:
Cost Estimates for Major Legislation to Incorporate Macroeconomic Scoring. Subsection © requires the Congressional Budget Office and Joint Committee on Taxation, to the extent practicable, to incorporate the macroeconomic effects of “major legislation” into the official cost estimates used for enforcing the budget resolution and other rules of the House. The subsection requires, to the extent practicable, a qualitative assessment of the long-term budgetary and macroeconomic effects of “major legislation”, which is defined to cover legislation that causes a gross budgetary effect in any fiscal year covered by the budget resolution that is equal to or greater than 0.25 percent of the projected GDP for that year. This subsection also allows the chair of the Committee on the Budget, or in the case of revenue legislation the House member serving as the Chair or Vice Chair of the Joint Committee on Taxation, to designate “major legislation” for purposes of this rule.

This subsection also repeals the existing provision in clause 3(h)(2) of rule XIII that requires a macroeconomic impact analysis of revenue legislation, which is superseded by the new rule.
This is also known as Dynamic Scoring.
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36 comments (Latest Comment: 01/08/2015 21:29:26 by Raine)

Influence For Sale
Author: BobR    Date: 2015-01-07 11:39:25

It was Abraham Lincoln who so eloquently stated in the Gettysburg Address that we had a "government of the people, by the people, for the people". The notion was an extension of our founding fathers' grievances as stated in the Declaration of Independence, when we were merely colonies run by absentee landlords. The Constitution was crafted to ensure we were a nation of laws to prevent the aristocracy and royalty from governing by fiat, so that the poor common man would have a voice in how he was governed.

How far we have fallen from that ideal.
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42 comments (Latest Comment: 01/07/2015 21:30:58 by Raine)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 01/06/2015 11:07:50

Good Morning.

With combat operations allegedly done in Afghanistan, you'll see some changes in our format. We're still in Iraq, but I'm going to stop counting the days for the moment.

We're also not going to post the daily casualty count unless there are new casualties on either front, as there has not been an American death in either area for quite some time. However, the stats are always available at Antiwar.com if you are so inclined.

However, since we're still paying for it, and Javi will be paying for it, and probably any such grandbabies I may have....we'll still see where today's Cost of War is going:

$ 1, 539, 820, 250, 000 .00

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58 comments (Latest Comment: 01/06/2015 22:49:52 by Scoopster)

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