Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) asserted on Thursday that liberals did not understand that kids who got free lunches at school did not have parents who cared about them at home.
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He then told a story of a “young boy from a very poor family” who received free lunches at school “from a government program.”
“He didn’t want a free lunch,” Ryan insisted. “He wanted his own lunch, one in a brown paper bag, just like the other kids.”
“He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown paper bag had someone who cared for him. This is what the left does not understand.”
The paper-bag lunch story is from a 2011 book about a hungry, panhandling kid in New York City.
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And the kid in the book wasn’t turning down gov’t subsidized lunches at school, he was reacting to a private benefactor’s offer to pay for his cafeteria lunches at school.
Ventura said it looked like the ultra-rich had a “sickness” and were dangerously addicted to money.
“I think that’s what’s wrong with these one percenters. They have so much money they couldn’t spend it in their lifetime or their grandchildren’s lifetime, but it truly becomes a sickness.”
Ventura also questioned the conventional wisdom that billionaires earn their enormous salaries because they work more than the rest of Americans. He laughed at the notion that the one percent “work harder.”
“Is it work pushing numbers around on papers and moving decimal points?” he said. “Or is it work washing dishes or digging a ditch? Because I highly doubt that any of these one percenters — I’d love to know how many of them began like I did, at Mama Rosa’s restaurant washing dishes for $1.50 an hour. That’s work, and it’s as hard of work washing them dishes all day long as it would be doing what these CEOs do.”
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And then Miss Laura sent him to the orphanage and said FUCK YOU I AM A LIBERAL and then she aborted him and now he is dead.
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WTF, Massachusetts. WTF.
I hope they get that legislation passed -- FAST...
ETA: the fixed that ish fast. Way to go MA Legislature.
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WTF, Massachusetts. WTF.
I hope they get that legislation passed -- FAST...
ETA: the fixed that ish fast. Way to go MA Legislature.
I didn't even need to read the article to know what you had linked. A friend of mine posted something about this on the BoF yesterdee. Stay klassy, Mass. Speaking of the Bay State, where has the Goodman TriSec been?
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Okay cage match! Jesse the Body Ventura vs Paul the Liar Ryan. Two go in! One comes out! Who will it be?
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this is FANTASTIC!!
We have (name removed) walking the floor today. Please use his expertise if you need help. Stand up and wave him down. He is walking around with a Red Shirt on.
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Paul Ryan is stealing from Rand Paul's plagiarism playbook..
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Tease metaphors and geekism killed the blog?
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Mother Nature, she's such a tease! Flashing sun like it was the top of her stocking then smoothing her skirt down.
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Tease metaphors and geekism killed the blog?
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Tease metaphors and geekism killed the blog?
Not with me, Mala and Scoop around
Okay it merely stunned. Sue me.
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Paul Ryan is stealing from Rand Paul's plagiarism playbook..
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*adjusts Crown of Geekdom then gets back to work*
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Mother Nature, she's such a tease! Flashing sun like it was the top of her stocking then smoothing her skirt down.
You know, you fool her and she will exact her wrath...
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Something more like this?
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Good day. Sir!
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I recently had an interesting (if slightly morbid) thought:
If President Obama is able to not die of a sickness, an accident, or an assassination attempt before December 26 of next year, he will be the tail end of a new presidential record.
The longest period the US has gone without a Chief Executive dying in office was 51 years and 339 days, from the inauguration of George Washington to the passing of William Henry Harrison. From that time on through the JFK assassination, we had a President die in office roughly every twenty years or so (With Zachary Taylor providing the combo breaker in 1850).
If you believe the old "curse of Tippecanoe", Ronald Reagan would have been the next to die after JFK, since he was elected in a year ending in a zero. Dubya would have then followed. The fact that they didn't thus put the legend of the curse to rest. Let's just hope that Barack Obama continues the streak of good fortune and that it remains unbroken for a LONG time.
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I recently had an interesting (if slightly morbid) thought:
If President Obama is able to not die of a sickness, an accident, or an assassination attempt before December 26 of next year, he will be the tail end of a new presidential record.
The longest period the US has gone without a Chief Executive dying in office was 51 years and 339 days, from the inauguration of George Washington to the passing of William Henry Harrison. From that time on through the JFK assassination, we had a President die in office roughly every twenty years or so (With Zachary Taylor providing the combo breaker in 1850).
If you believe the old "curse of Tippecanoe", Ronald Reagan would have been the next to die after JFK, since he was elected in a year ending in a zero. Dubya would have then followed. The fact that they didn't thus put the legend of the curse to rest. Let's just hope that Barack Obama continues the streak of good fortune and that it remains unbroken for a LONG time.
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Asked specifically if he felt like he had exhausted all other avenues before deciding to leak classified information to the public, Snowden responded:
Yes. I had reported these clearly problematic programs to more than ten distinct officials, none of whom took any action to address them. As an employee of a private company rather than a direct employee of the US government, I was not protected by US whistleblower laws, and I would not have been protected from retaliation and legal sanction for revealing classified information about lawbreaking in accordance with the recommended process.