Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) on Wednesday reiterated his opposition to a federal aid package for tornado victims without budgetary offsets, saying a bill that doesn’t include spending cuts elsewhere would saddle the children who survived the storm with additional government debt.
“Look, my constituents don’t want us to charge our everyday living expenses to their kids,” Coburn said on "CBS This Morning."
“The very kids that were rescued from the school, the very kids we’re interested in — why should we saddle them when we’re wasting money?”
“It’s just not an appropriate way to run the future for our children,” he added.
Conspiracy talk show host Alex Jones, increasingly a favorite of conservative media for his extremely vocal support of gun rights, outed himself Tuesday as a tornado truther by telling a caller on his show, “Of course there’s weather weapons stuff going on.”
Jones, a longtime proponent of the idea that the U.S. government can manipulate and even produce weather systems like tornadoes and hurricanes, went on to say that if people saw helicopters or small aircraft in the area, then “you better bet your bottom dollar they did this.”
“But, who knows if they did?” he asked. “You know, that’s the thing. We don’t know.”
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Jones is being increasingly treated as a serious voice within the Republican Party, and lawmakers in statehouses across the country and in Congress are beginning to parrot his views, however bizarre they might sound. Even Fox News hosts and Republican freshman Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has appeared on the Alex Jones Show, much like his father, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), continues to do.
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck on Wednesday compared the U.S. government to “rapists” over recent so-called scandals, from the Internal Revenue Service’s practice of scrutinizing conservative groups to last year’s terrorist attacks in Benghazi.
In a bizarre rant on his radio show, Beck said that he didn’t know why Congress was bothering with an investigation into the scandals because the federal government had been building a massive spying database in Utah.
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Beck added: “The American people have just been raped. Why are you asking rapists to hurry up with the swab test?”
Right to Life president Barbara Listing said Wednesday that women should purchase additional health insurance if they feared being raped, because the sexual crime was like a car accident.
“Nobody plans to have an accident in a car accident, nobody plans to have their homes flooded. You have to buy extra insurance for those,” she told reporters.
The Republican nominee for lieutenant governor in Virginia says that he is a Christian and has no reason to apologize for his history against of hate speech against LGBT people, liberals and abortion providers.
It was only after African-American minister E.W. Jackson won the nomination at the Virginia Republican Party Convention last week that many became aware of his history of saying gay people were “perverted” and “sick people psychologically.”
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He has also called Democrats “slave masters” and compared Planned Parenthood to the Ku Klux Klan.”
“Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact,” Jackson said in a 2012 interview.
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“I say the things that I say because I’m a Christian, not because I hate anybody, but because I have religious values that matter to me,” Jackson told reporters during a campaign event in Fredericksburg, according to The Washington Post...
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Give it up for scout leaders.
Speaking Scouts, Tri, I am shocked by what you posted last night. Good riddance to them.
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Quote by Raine:I was shocked to read that as well. If it was I suspect it is, leaving the troop might be the least of things that should happen.Quote by Mondobubba:
Give it up for scout leaders.
Speaking Scouts, Tri, I am shocked by what you posted last night. Good riddance to them.
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Alright gang.
You may have seen Waltham on the news last night, but that was because an FBI agent shot and killed a suspect in the triple-murder that's been linked to Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
What wasn't on the news last night was this: A youth that attended our shooting sports weekend last week took live rounds from the shooting range and brought them to the McDevitt Middle School.
Javier's school.
The youth in question was a guest of another scout - he did not attend the safety presentations, is not registered, was not on the charter and had no accident or liability insurance, there was no permission slip, and we did not meet the parents.
However.....the Scoutmaster allowed him on the trip at the last minute and allowed him to participate in the shooting events.
If the media gets a hold of this, Troop 250 and quite possibly the entire scouting program in the City of Waltham could be permanently damaged.
Quote by Raine:Jebus, that is worse than what I thought it was going to be.Quote by TriSec:
Alright gang.
You may have seen Waltham on the news last night, but that was because an FBI agent shot and killed a suspect in the triple-murder that's been linked to Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
What wasn't on the news last night was this: A youth that attended our shooting sports weekend last week took live rounds from the shooting range and brought them to the McDevitt Middle School.
Javier's school.
The youth in question was a guest of another scout - he did not attend the safety presentations, is not registered, was not on the charter and had no accident or liability insurance, there was no permission slip, and we did not meet the parents.
However.....the Scoutmaster allowed him on the trip at the last minute and allowed him to participate in the shooting events.
If the media gets a hold of this, Troop 250 and quite possibly the entire scouting program in the City of Waltham could be permanently damaged.
I have to say this, Tri -- someone should be held accountable for this. WHAT THE HELL?
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Oh this is gooooooooood.
Westboro baptistChurchset up a site to hate on Oklahoma... and got hacked... Clickety!
Quote by Mondobubba:Quote by Raine:
Oh this is gooooooooood.
Westboro baptistChurchset up a site to hate on Oklahoma... and got hacked... Clickety!
Should I be getting the 503 error message?
Quote by Mondobubba:Quote by Raine:
Oh this is gooooooooood.
Westboro baptistChurchset up a site to hate on Oklahoma... and got hacked... Clickety!
Should I be getting the 503 error message?
Quote by Raine:try again, it's back up.Quote by Mondobubba:Quote by Raine:
Oh this is gooooooooood.
Westboro baptistChurchset up a site to hate on Oklahoma... and got hacked... Clickety!
Should I be getting the 503 error message?
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Was this youth a Scout at all? It was just a friend of a scout in the pack?
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Was this youth a Scout at all? It was just a friend of a scout in the pack?
Friend of a scout.
Not Registered; not on the charter.
Therefore, no accident or liability insurance.
Imagine for one second if anything happened. Today's blog would have been about the end of my Scouting career.
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I did post something yesterday about Alex Jones and the weather machine. Question for you Alex, if the gummit has a weather machine, why are they using to create tornadoes and not using to say ummm reverse global warming?
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Mornin' all..Quote by Mondobubba:
I did post something yesterday about Alex Jones and the weather machine. Question for you Alex, if the gummit has a weather machine, why are they using to create tornadoes and not using to say ummm reverse global warming?
Climate change is a stinky librul wedge issue - why would they want to fix it?! Just like Republicans and their anti-abortion schtick..
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Was this youth a Scout at all? It was just a friend of a scout in the pack?
Friend of a scout.
Not Registered; not on the charter.
Therefore, no accident or liability insurance.
Imagine for one second if anything happened. Today's blog would have been about the end of my Scouting career.
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Mornin' all..Quote by Mondobubba:
I did post something yesterday about Alex Jones and the weather machine. Question for you Alex, if the gummit has a weather machine, why are they using to create tornadoes and not using to say ummm reverse global warming?
Climate change is a stinky librul wedge issue - why would they want to fix it?! Just like Republicans and their anti-abortion schtick..
Scoop, you slipped on the tinfoil hat too easily.
Quote by Raine:Tri, it should be the end of someone's scouting career. Teh scoutmaster put a lot of people in danger. This isn't really a *no harm done* issue, imo.Quote by TriSec:Quote by Raine:
Was this youth a Scout at all? It was just a friend of a scout in the pack?
Friend of a scout.
Not Registered; not on the charter.
Therefore, no accident or liability insurance.
Imagine for one second if anything happened. Today's blog would have been about the end of my Scouting career.
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Mornin' all..Quote by Mondobubba:
I did post something yesterday about Alex Jones and the weather machine. Question for you Alex, if the gummit has a weather machine, why are they using to create tornadoes and not using to say ummm reverse global warming?
Climate change is a stinky librul wedge issue - why would they want to fix it?! Just like Republicans and their anti-abortion schtick..
Scoop, you slipped on the tinfoil hat too easily.
Heh it's been one of those mornings.. I've got several reasons to be VERY grumpy. Hopefully this pair of double chocolate donuts I picked up on the way in will help with that tho!
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Check out the Google doodle today :sniffle: Damn onions.
I will always seek to preserve a cheerful spirit, even in the midst of irksome tasks and weighty responsibilities, and will endeavor, so far as in my power lies, to be unselfish in service and devotion to the welfare of others.
Quote by Raine:Since you are already tearing up....Quote by Mondobubba:
Check out the Google doodle today :sniffle: Damn onions.
Can I love this woman any more? Yes.
Quote by Mondobubba:Quote by Raine:Since you are already tearing up....Quote by Mondobubba:
Check out the Google doodle today :sniffle: Damn onions.
Can I love this woman any more? Yes.
She is made of awesome!
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TriSec, I am stunned about your news. I will concur with Mondo: someone has to pay for being so irresponsible. I am not comfortable with letting someone who did not go through the safety training show up last minute. However, having someone walk off with live rounds and bring it to a school is unacceptable. An adult must be held accountable, no matter the impact on scouting in Waltham.
Quote by Raine:Since you are already tearing up....Quote by Mondobubba:
Check out the Google doodle today :sniffle: Damn onions.
Can I love this woman any more? Yes.
Quote by Raine:I concur. This is really bigger than scouting.Quote by Will in Chicago:
TriSec, I am stunned about your news. I will concur with Mondo: someone has to pay for being so irresponsible. I am not comfortable with letting someone who did not go through the safety training show up last minute. However, having someone walk off with live rounds and bring it to a school is unacceptable. An adult must be held accountable, no matter the impact on scouting in Waltham.
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stupid dust
Quote by Raine:
New rule:
As long as the GOP keeps the sequester in place there will be NO offsetting funds for anything to provide disaster relief.
Quote by wickedpam:Quote by Raine:
New rule:
As long as the GOP keeps the sequester in place there will be NO offsetting funds for anything to provide disaster relief.
I concur