“Harry Reid, who every day does much more than most people in the news media realize, and definitely accomplishes much more than the news media ever reports, pushed through pages and pages of nominations for President Obama yesterday when everyone was focused on what the House would do on the fiscal cliff vote. And Harry Reid did that with the active but invisible help of Mitch McConnell who did his part to make sure that no Republicans would vote against any of those nominations. And what did the United States Senate do today, that dysfunctional United States Senate? According to the news media, absolutely nothing.”
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NRA says AR platform good for hunting and home defense.
Again not so much.
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Mornin' all.. back at work after being sick.. or maybe while I still am!
Anyone see this move Harry Reid made late night in the Senate, to get dozens of Obama nominations pushed through on unanimous consent? I'm still looking for a full list of the confirmations to see how many of them were judicial..
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NRA says AR platform good for hunting and home defense.
Again not so much.
*grunt*
Assault rifles are good for one thing only. Hunting? Sure. People.
The Assault rifle's strength is volume of fire - not necessarily accuracy or range, which you do need for hunting.
A 15-year-old is suing the Icelandic state for the right to legally use the name given to her by her mother. The problem? Blaer, which means "light breeze" in Icelandic, is not on a list approved by the government.
Like a handful of other countries, including Germany and Denmark, Iceland has official rules about what a baby can be named. In a country comfortable with a firm state role, most people don't question the Personal Names Register, a list of 1,712 male names and 1,853 female names that fit Icelandic grammar and pronunciation rules and that officials maintain will protect children from embarrassment. Parents can take from the list or apply to a special committee that has the power to say yea or nay.
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This is one case where Big Government (in other countries) goes too far:
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This is one case where Big Government (in other countries) goes too far:
On the other hand, they don't have a bunch of "LaQueesha"s, etc to deal with...
I'm still putting things together, but for now, please keep the children of Newtown in your hearts and thoughts today. ###FOLD###
They are returning to school for the first time since the shooting.Parents wishing to remain with their kids, ages 5 to 10 in kindergarten through grade 4, will be allowed to accompany them to their classrooms and afterwards may stay in the school's "lecture room" for as long as they like, according to a memo to parents on the school's website. Counseling will be available for students and parents at the new school, about 7 miles south of the scene of the shooting.
"I'm not sure I'm ready yet to totally let them go," Sandy Hook parent Sarah Swansiger said on CNN about her trepidation over the return to school.
When the students return around 9 a.m. Thursday, they will find all of the belongings they left behind when teachers and police evacuated them from Sandy Hook nearly three weeks ago after Adam Lanza burst through the school doors and opened fire.
They will be welcomed to a building that has been decked out as a "Winter Wonderland" with the help of thousands of kids from around the world.
and
Raine
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Ohoho! Raine and I are on the same wavelength this mornin'..
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This is one case where Big Government (in other countries) goes too far:A 15-year-old is suing the Icelandic state for the right to legally use the name given to her by her mother. The problem? Blaer, which means "light breeze" in Icelandic, is not on a list approved by the government.
Like a handful of other countries, including Germany and Denmark, Iceland has official rules about what a baby can be named. In a country comfortable with a firm state role, most people don't question the Personal Names Register, a list of 1,712 male names and 1,853 female names that fit Icelandic grammar and pronunciation rules and that officials maintain will protect children from embarrassment. Parents can take from the list or apply to a special committee that has the power to say yea or nay.
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hey Mary my ancestor's didn't come thru Ellis Island - they came here prior to any immigration policy
does that make me illegal?
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Remember, Iceland is where "Ulfsdottir" is OK.
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hey Mary my ancestor's didn't come thru Ellis Island - they came here prior to any immigration policy
does that make me illegal?
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Did Road Flare Mary say a while back she wasn't gonna call back any more?
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hey Mary my ancestor's didn't come thru Ellis Island - they came here prior to any immigration policy
does that make me illegal?
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hey Mary my ancestor's didn't come thru Ellis Island - they came here prior to any immigration policy
does that make me illegal?
Quote by Raine:Quote by wickedpam:
hey Mary my ancestor's didn't come thru Ellis Island - they came here prior to any immigration policy
does that make me illegal?
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hey Mary my ancestor's didn't come thru Ellis Island - they came here prior to any immigration policy
does that make me illegal?
Yeah I've got some of those pre-Revolution ancestors on my mamma's side.
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I am deleting the Blog stub, but putting the body of it here:I'm still putting things together, but for now, please keep the children of Newtown in your hearts and thoughts today. ###FOLD###
They are returning to school for the first time since the shooting.Parents wishing to remain with their kids, ages 5 to 10 in kindergarten through grade 4, will be allowed to accompany them to their classrooms and afterwards may stay in the school's "lecture room" for as long as they like, according to a memo to parents on the school's website. Counseling will be available for students and parents at the new school, about 7 miles south of the scene of the shooting.
"I'm not sure I'm ready yet to totally let them go," Sandy Hook parent Sarah Swansiger said on CNN about her trepidation over the return to school.
When the students return around 9 a.m. Thursday, they will find all of the belongings they left behind when teachers and police evacuated them from Sandy Hook nearly three weeks ago after Adam Lanza burst through the school doors and opened fire.
They will be welcomed to a building that has been decked out as a "Winter Wonderland" with the help of thousands of kids from around the world.
and
Raine
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she's confused but the 2% that's going back into Social Security
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Slime Porner pulled the plug on Current TV as soon as the sale to Al-Jazeera was announced as part of Time Warner's plan to dump underperforming networks. So far, the only network they dropped was Ovation TV until this. So far, they have only been dropping independent networks they haven't been paying that much for. I wonder what would happen if Time Warner decided to drop an underperfoming Nickelodeon or ESPN channel and how that conglomerate would respond to it. There's speculation that IFC and WE might be on their chopping black and I'm sure we will have the crawls ready if they announce that they are pulling the plug.
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hey Mary my ancestor's didn't come thru Ellis Island - they came here prior to any immigration policy
does that make me illegal?
Yeah I've got some of those pre-Revolution ancestors on my mamma's side.
guess we're one of "those people" now
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I just wanted to congratulate all my friends and family back in CT.. Joe Lieberman is OFFICIALLY GONE!
‎"Lawrence O'Donnell just said everything we've been saying about the fiscal cliff deal but went even further. He noted that the income threshold for the top tax rate under Clinton would be $397,000 today (indexed for inflation). The $250,000 figure was set 20 years ago. So by starting with $250K and "caving" by raising the threshold to $400K, Obama basically undid the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers, and most Republicans (and most pundits on the Left) didn't even realize what he was doing. Not only did he get Republicans to vote to raise taxes for the first time in 22 years (not a single Republican voted for Clinton's tax hike on the wealthy), but he got extended unemployment benefits and a five-year extension in refundable tax credits (i.e., entitlements) for low-income taxpayers. O keeps playing chess, and everyone else keeps seeing checkers." — DH Stone (The Pragmatic Progressive Page)
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been looking for a video or link to something else Lawrence O'Donnell said last night, this was the best I could find. He did say this:‎"Lawrence O'Donnell just said everything we've been saying about the fiscal cliff deal but went even further. He noted that the income threshold for the top tax rate under Clinton would be $397,000 today (indexed for inflation). The $250,000 figure was set 20 years ago. So by starting with $250K and "caving" by raising the threshold to $400K, Obama basically undid the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers, and most Republicans (and most pundits on the Left) didn't even realize what he was doing. Not only did he get Republicans to vote to raise taxes for the first time in 22 years (not a single Republican voted for Clinton's tax hike on the wealthy), but he got extended unemployment benefits and a five-year extension in refundable tax credits (i.e., entitlements) for low-income taxpayers. O keeps playing chess, and everyone else keeps seeing checkers." — DH Stone (The Pragmatic Progressive Page)
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been looking for a video or link to something else Lawrence O'Donnell said last night, this was the best I could find. He did say this:‎"Lawrence O'Donnell just said everything we've been saying about the fiscal cliff deal but went even further. He noted that the income threshold for the top tax rate under Clinton would be $397,000 today (indexed for inflation). The $250,000 figure was set 20 years ago. So by starting with $250K and "caving" by raising the threshold to $400K, Obama basically undid the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers, and most Republicans (and most pundits on the Left) didn't even realize what he was doing. Not only did he get Republicans to vote to raise taxes for the first time in 22 years (not a single Republican voted for Clinton's tax hike on the wealthy), but he got extended unemployment benefits and a five-year extension in refundable tax credits (i.e., entitlements) for low-income taxpayers. O keeps playing chess, and everyone else keeps seeing checkers." — DH Stone (The Pragmatic Progressive Page)
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hey Mary my ancestor's didn't come thru Ellis Island - they came here prior to any immigration policy
does that make me illegal?
Yeah I've got some of those pre-Revolution ancestors on my mamma's side.
guess we're one of "those people" now
I can get very pretentious about having female relations who could be in the DAR.
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Well.. Lookie there! It worked!
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Well.. Lookie there! It worked!
Thanks for that Scoop!