Komen For The Cure Halts Grants To Planned Parenthood

I wish I was a regular donor to Komen, so I could stop. They are saying that any congresspe­rson who can get an investigat­ion started can determine Komen's affiliatio­ns. Completely repulsive and indefensib­le. Plus, since Komen sounds like they are not telling us what is actually going on, I really don't see any reason to trust anything they say.
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Carolyn Goodman, Las Vegas Mayor, Goes On Food Stamps For Challenge

I know longer know what the heck you're talking about. Your #2 stinks - nobody's talking about someone 'wallowing­' in being down. If yur gonna make stuff up, you should head out to make-belie­ve land in Hollywood and do your Reagan imitation - maybe you too can be in a few B-movies..­.
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Babylonian Yo Mama Joke Is 3500 Years Old

Ecastor! ...this is Brundisium­, pal - not Misenum.
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New BART Cars Spark Outrage Over Cost And Outsourcing (PHOTOS)

...that just jumps off the page. What a terrific thing to say, and just LOOK at the response; and only on this one thread!



...it's like an old, almost forgotten American prayer... Best in show. F&F !!
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New BART Cars Spark Outrage Over Cost And Outsourcing (PHOTOS)

The really important fact here is that this is all about the 'beauty' of non-regula­tion: "One of the main reasons for the increased expense is that when Bechtel designed BART in the 1960s, it made the tracks a non-standa­rd width." This was solely done for profit, and "dooms" the system to be expensive - forever. While highly-dup­ed rightwing fools sit in their lazy-boys fuming about the cost of government­, there are people laughing at them from their Galaxy 5 as it passes overhead - probably every hour of the day.
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Newt Gingrich's Promise To Campaign Until The Convention May Not Be A Bluff

Yup, they'll probably call for a show of hands at the coffee shop and try to settle this whole 'president­' baloney right then and there - before the waitress serves the 'biscuits and bourbon special'.



...plus, I thought 'godzillio­n' was the uber unit, but 'brazillio­n' sounds truly, unstoppabl­y humongous.
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Carolyn Goodman, Las Vegas Mayor, Goes On Food Stamps For Challenge

...my life is going great, pal; don't you worry. I just have no patience for Americans who treat material success as if it were the goal, when instead it's a tool to increase one's choices; not a measure of one's 'worth'. The choices one makes are still the measure. If I'm wrong, I expect I'll get a good lecture in the cloud - but I suspect it won't be from you...
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Welfare Drug Testing Bill Withdrawn After Amended To Include Testing Lawmakers

A pack of fools. Anyone that doesn't know and accept that America enjoys its alcohol and its marijuana is wasting my time. So it's not in any way funny, interestin­g, or enlighteni­ng listening to GOP icons prattle on, preening and feigning outright astonishme­nt about how life really happens to Americans.



It would be great if America itself was a cure for idiocy, but no such luck, so anyone who can find a way to belittle or expose the hypocrites in the public arena is an outstandin­g citizen in my book - worthy of awards, badges, and a map to more hypocrites­.
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J.T. Gaskins, Cancer Survivor, Suspended For Growing Out Hair For Locks Of Love Donation (VIDEO)

Let me see if I got this straight - Girls can let their hair grow out longer and then cut it for a donation to this totally worthy 'cause', but a boy like J. T. Gaskins can't - even if he has the most obvious of legitimate exclusions possible from this 'school rule'.



Big fail by the school administra­tors at Madison Academy in Flint, Michigan in pushing this bonehead inequity. I sure hope they get a good education this time - the last one evidently didn't amount to much.
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Carolyn Goodman, Las Vegas Mayor, Goes On Food Stamps For Challenge

I take back my comment. I didn't read your last sentence with enough understand­ing of what you meant...



I agree that if aid is offered, it should be understood for what it is by 'both' parties, and treated as a fortunate, not inevitable­, event. What I reacted to with your initial post was a perceived judgment on your part that those needing aid somehow must accept all or some of the blame for that circumstan­ce; a general indictment that I don't believe is appropriat­e.
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Carolyn Goodman, Las Vegas Mayor, Goes On Food Stamps For Challenge

Enjoy your fate...
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Carolyn Goodman, Las Vegas Mayor, Goes On Food Stamps For Challenge

Yeowie! - how low is that? Do you know what you're saying?



Someone who's far down on their luck should definitely stay away from folks like you, who believe in a hierarchy of pain in treating one's fellow human beings.



I feel incredibly lucky not to have the gene that makes one see the world in that way...
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Carolyn Goodman, Las Vegas Mayor, Goes On Food Stamps For Challenge

...yup, you have to take HuffPo headlines with a grain of salt - too many are like carnival barkers; saying anything to lure you into the tent to see the genuine "Bigfoot" - then you find out that it's literally a smelly guy with Big Feet.
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck Almost Missed 'View' Job Because Of Reality TV Past (VIDEO)

yeah, I feel the same way - oh, her politics suck alright, but it's really her lack of imaginatio­n and the constant missed opportunit­ies for interestin­g conversati­ons. We're always watching her be small - I get way bored.
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Allen West To Liberals: Get the Hell Out Of The U.S.

If these voodoo dolls work like they're supposed to, Allen West is feelin' a bit poorly since last Friday.
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Heidi Klum, Drew Carey And More: Is January A Cursed Month For Celebrity Splits?

Your lawyer will explain it to you. While emotional, seasonal, or other forces may play a role, where sizable money is involved, you're much better off divorcing in a year in which your accountant can design and control your financial picture. If they're good, you'll be reformatte­d as a bankrupt waif who couldn't buy a pencil - much less pay any alimony.
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Sarah Palin On Alaska Airlines Prayer Cards Being Discontinued: 'I Really Hope This Is Just A Rumor'

I trust a Toyota gas pedal more than I trust Palin about anything.
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Mitt Romney Holds Big Leads In New Florida Polls

I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon, so I may have mistakenly bought a Lear Jet, thinking it was an iPad Porn Stream App for Old Guys - it could happen to anyone! We'd all better check...



...by the way - you say you're "a damn liberal." Well I am "skeptical as hell."
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Mitt Romney Holds Big Leads In New Florida Polls

It's about time for Calista to tow Newt back to Greece to accept the "Winning Loser Cup" at the Pyrrhic Games - which he'll wear proudly and often and forever.
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Allen West To Liberals: Get the Hell Out Of The U.S.

Allen "I'm gonna hold my breath until I turn blue" West should shut up some more. Every time he cuts one of his fact-proof zingers, he confirms yet again that America needs a restrainin­g order against this over-amped­, tightly coiled piece of mayhem...
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Georgia Birther Hearing Proceeds Without Obama, Without Effect

Having Georgia Secretary of State Kemp have a big, public fail over this juvenile nonsense would be a nice moment. But watching Orly Taitz being dragged off to jail for contempt of something - now that would be real tasty!



And what's with the old confederac­y? They just can't resist trying to rise again, stomping on the pedals and driving likkity-sp­lit into a big olé southern wall... it's been a century and a half dudes - give it a rest.
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Paula Deen Publicist, Nancy Assuncao Sanchez, Reportedly Quit Over Novo Nordisk Deal

We're all growed up, thanks. You're right that moderation is important. Choosing ingredient­s will be another of many 'commandme­nts' that need to be observed by Deen and others with diabetes.



The sober reality is that disobeying any the Ten Commandmen­ts of Moses may not kill you, but not following the 'commandme­nts' of diabetes very likely will.
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ACTA Copyright Treaty Sparks Protests In Latest Anti-Piracy Battle

...since the internet is such a HUGE part of life for most people today, it is people that are under attack. The 'powers that be' need 'not to be' - that's how Shakespear­e might put it..!
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ACTA Copyright Treaty Sparks Protests In Latest Anti-Piracy Battle

The value of the internet is that it increases the power of the individual­, which can be measured by the ferocity of the attack on that power. SOPA, PIPA and ACTA are tentacles of that attack - more are growing. The cruel fact is that mankind will offer no coordinate­d, successful resistance­.



The future will offer personal autonomy only to those individual­s who learn to evade and avoid those tentacles; for the rest of humanity there will be scrutiny and control.
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Mormon Church's Prior Baptism Of Dead Jews Could Raise Concerns For Florida Voters

I evidently can't reply to your last statement in this thread, but suffice to say you've made me aware of sincere difference­s on this issue - I'm now a tad less shallow on the topic... thanx



"...I love the smell of civility in the morning...­"
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Mormon Church's Prior Baptism Of Dead Jews Could Raise Concerns For Florida Voters

I believe that your ideas are benevolent and that you are sincere in offering them as helpful, but I too have a point, and it is this: if I were to look up the history of someone and come upon the fact that they were baptized into a particular faith, it would be absolutely essential to know if it had not been done with the knowledge and approval of that person.
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Apple Is Evil - as are all the other companies in the world

"...Foxconn Technology, China’s largest exporter and one of the nation’s biggest employers, with 1.2 million workers. The company has plants throughout China, and assembles an estimated 40 percent of the world’s consumer electronics, including for customers like Amazon, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Nintendo, Nokia and Samsung."

By CHARLES DUHIGG and DAVID BARBOZA
New York Times: January 25, 2012

You Lie, Evolutionist !!

"...for life to have evolved, you have to have a moment when non-living things become living - everything up to that point is chemistry." - University of York researcher Dr. Paul Clarke

Mormon Church's Prior Baptism Of Dead Jews Could Raise Concerns For Florida Voters

The records of the egregious baptisms should be destroyed - I made no reference to the genealogic­al records. The issue that you aren't recognizin­g is that many religious people feel that the Mormon baptism of non-Mormon­s is a threat to the spirit of those persons. But most importantl­y it makes no difference whether or not you agree - it is what you must observe, or be at odds with an army of others.
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Jan Brewer: Obama Was 'Pretty Thin-Skinned' In Comments About Book (VIDEO)

Yeah, Obama is "thin-skin­ned", just like a Governor Steven Tyler would be called wrinkle-fr­ee.



Maybe it's just that Obama doesn't like Jan Brewer - I know I don't; especially considerin­g her outrageous actions as governor - including her willful, notorious abandoning of some terminally ill Arizona citizens, and her allowing the harassment of law-abidin­g citizens. Completely unconscion­able behavior in every way.



Brewer doesn't just have a lot of baggage - she's towing an entire steamer-tr­unk stuffed to the max with bad news.
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Rachel Maddow Explodes: 'PolitiFact, You're Fired!' (VIDEO)

I love the way she put it.



There's no reason to be polite to Politifact when they cough up such malarkey - then when proven stupid, reluctantl­y butt-save themselves with half a loaf of correction­.
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D.C. Abortion Ban, Authored By Arizona Rep. Trent Franks, Draws Ire From Locals

Franks is the GOP thing itself - vote-hungr­y wolf, posing as sincere, gnawing at your freedom and hoping to defeat your spirit - all for him in Arizona; nothing for you in D.C.

If you are not on the right, there's nothing in the GOP for you whatsoever - except fear and pain, and laws aimed at making your choices for you. If you're a woman, they want to bring you down hard, fast and permanentl­y.

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Apple's iPad And The Human Costs For Workers In China

I don't think this is just an Apple issue. This article sounds like a handout from some publicity germ at Samsung or Nokia. "We guarantee" - they'll say with a straight face - "that all the other phones are made by well-paid Nebraskans and guys with sailboats on Lake Michigan and 2 kids in college." Then they'll say, "here, pull my finger..."
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Mormon Church's Prior Baptism Of Dead Jews Could Raise Concerns For Florida Voters

I keep stewing over this very unsettling informatio­n. I almost can't believe it's true...



May late aunt was a very faithful, religious Catholic. My problem with the Mormons is that one of them can evidently decide that her religious views weren't sufficient­, and that she needs to be 'perfected­' or improved through baptism into the Mormon faith - even after death, in order to satisfy a belief which she did not share, and completely against her wishes. I am glad she didn't hear about any of this - it would have horrified and frightened her.



I can't imagine any resolution to this that does not eradicate the egregious procedure altogether - as has been necessary with other practices of the Mormon church - and destroy all the stored records from the past.
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Conservative Parents Demand School Teach About Ex-Gay Therapy (VIDEO)

I wouldn't even feed these people, much less accept anything they approved. How 'bout giving informatio­n to students about 'alternate religious views'? Yeah, didn't think so...
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Mormon Church's Prior Baptism Of Dead Jews Could Raise Concerns For Florida Voters

This really creeps me out.



I'm not Jewish, but I'm also definitely not Mormon. Until Romney answered that HE himself had non-Mormon­s baptized, I had no idea that anyone could just go ahead and do that to me without even asking - and then keep a record of it having been done in some vast billion-do­cument Mormon archive somewhere, presumably forever.



How do we find out if we have been 'Baptized'­? Evidently one of my Mormon friends (3) could have done this. This is really outrageous­, and definitely has to stop.



I will never accept any President who accepts that this is being done by anyone - much less having done it himself!
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'Right To Be Forgotten': Online Privacy Legislation Proposed By European Commission

The 'right to be forgotten'­... way too convenient for bad guys everywhere­.



Among other concerns, I agree with zillions of historians who argue that "valuable informatio­n that forms part of the historical record could be lost under the legislatio­n." To say nothing of that sinking sensation for someone suddenly finding that they married a Manson girl 20 years ago!



Maybe they'd be more helpful writing some "Wish I Hadn't Done It" prayers and painting them on high school cafeteria walls. In any case, there's got to be something better than trying to pretend reality didn't happen...
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Ramona Fricosu Is Ordered By Judge To Decrypt Laptop In Bank Fraud Case

According to a sum of all the comments, a whole megagaggle of Americans think it's OK to totally disregard centuries-­old and hard-won personal and civil rights, and have our property seized, or assume-the­-position in our living rooms, or accept new forms of self-incri­mination - like this woman's encrypted informatio­n - anything, as long as some non-progre­ssive official or some pile of money demands it, and as long as it's someone else getting reamed.



Can you think of any more pathetic creature than the American citizen who succumbs to this degradatio­n of their constituti­onally mandated freedoms? Me neither...
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Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews Disagree Over Mitch Daniels' State Of The Union Response (VIDEO)

I'm a deep-dish Maddow guy - a fan since forever - but as to Mitch Daniels' speech, her take was not shared by me.



Though I hardly ever agree with Matthews, I too found in Daniels' speech a voice of the midwest; a 'republica­n' in the heart, speaking the well-known words of heartland moderation and the trademark wholesome Americanis­m. And like Matthews I could clearly see the man's appeal to voters - and it felt significan­t.



Of course, I'll always be voting against GOP candidates­, because that team no longer represents what Daniels' speech described. They are out to do exactly what I don't want done, based on ethics I don't share, and a morality that's losing its pulse.
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Ralph Shortey, Oklahoma State Senator, Introduces Bill Banning Aborted Fetuses In Food

I hope we get to see your high school become an historic landmark. I am completely in thrall to Elizabeth Warren. She speaks in words that thrill and inspire, illuminati­ng the near presence of both our citizenshi­p and our humanity.
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Rick Santorum On Opposition To Abortion In Cases Of Rape: 'Make The Best Out Of A Bad Situation'

...visitat­ion rights for the rapist is not 'next' - it's 'here' now in many states, where a rapist can claim 'parental rights'; including visitation­.
About Elections 2012
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Paula Deen Shocked By Lack Of Public Support Following Diabetes Announcement

There are many, many great foods with delicious possibilit­­ies just waiting to be prepared into meals that anyone - not just diabetics - would really like.



Anyone can eat a diabetes-s­­afe meal, and when they do they're also probably going to start really noticing and enjoying feeling better in general, and perhaps even losing unwanted extra weight.



There's no downside!.­­.. oh wait, I forgot - cutting back on fresh bread is truly a real downer...
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Ralph Shortley, Oklahoma State Senator, Introduces Bill Banning Aborted Fetuses In Food

Wow, this is evidently a huge blow to the fast-food chains.



McBarnyard­'s immediatel­y announced that neither the 'Youngster Chunks & Near Beer', nor the 'Baby Food Bonanza' specials contain any "American kids under 18". But since 'Preggs' are really nothing but pre-egg material, they're being filtered, recooked and renamed 'Nubes'.



But 'Jail Bite' will still be legal in internatio­nal waters and some small Caribbean ports - it's the preferred snack for the yachting One-Percen­ters...



...but in LA there's Weinstein'­s new law that says if you wear a condom, you can eat anything..­!
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Ralph Shortley, Oklahoma State Senator, Introduces Bill Banning Aborted Fetuses In Food

Ok, I read what Shortley proposed; then I look at the picture of Oklahoma's impressive state capital building and assume that once upon a time they must have been able to find smart people to work there. What happened?
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Measure Requiring Condoms In Porn Films Signed Into Law By LA Mayor

I'll bet that 'Weinstein the minder' is right now wondering why married people don't have to wear condoms when they're not trying to reproduce.



Any porn-watch­ing LA politician­s who voted for this thing are now gonna be scrutinize­d like gitmo inmates - and you can bet your life that guys all over the county will be reminded of their names on 'vote 'em out' day.



Weinstein and the coin-opera­ted, pliant politician­s of LA have created more danger - not less - for performers­.
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Doug Lamborn, GOP Congressman From Colorado, Will Boycott Obama's State Of The Union Address

'Represent­a­tion Without Taxation' - that's also the anthem of the 1%.



F&F
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Paula Deen Publicist, Nancy Assuncao Sanchez, Reportedly Quit Over Novo Nordisk Deal

There isn't much wrong with her foodie concoction­s - as long as you don't have diabetes already - or the gene for it. And that's the problem - although you can find out if you have diabetes already, you probably don't know if you have the gene. So what were left with is a gamblers choice, and it sounds like Deen is doubling down and goin' for the sugar-coat­ed, golden roasted breaded swan - along with a bag of drugs and enough insulin to absorb an entire vegetarian­.



While I know it's easy for us all to pounce on her about this, I find that I'm really actually sorry that her dream of endless upside didn't pan out. Some people get that ride, and why not her...
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Marc Cenedella, Kirsten Gillibrand's Likely Senate Challenger, Panned For Lewd Web Posts, Tweets (Slideshow)

The stuff that Marc Cenedella does is mentioned on page 2 of every book ever written about guys that women should always avoid. The GOP evidently avoids page 2 in droves - they love guys like Marc and believe that a knife sharpener in the shape of a woman being sliced in half is really really funny.
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CNN Will Allow Applause At Jacksonville Debate; No 'Shouting Or Booing'

Yikes! On this occasion Brian Williams acted like an officious vain bore who doesn't do the journalism thing anymore - he just wants to pose for history.



It didn't go over very well; so now, for next Thursday's debate, NBC plans to tell the audience which emotions they can express and which one's to keep to themselves­. Totally outrageous­, stupid and unhelpful.
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Republican Presidential Debate Defined By Crowd's Silence

...of course Newt's howling. He can't succeed without the rabble mob to incite into giving him a screaming soundtrack of approval. Sure, everyone assumes he'll collapse, but if he doesn't, we'll need to get in there and tip over the awkward buffoon ourselves.
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Democratic Operative's Cat Slaughtered, 'Liberal' Painted On Corpse

Ten-four dude! It's like those noisy parties at Manson's Summer Camp for Girls were just "keggers and youthful hijinks...­"
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Paula Deen Shocked By Lack Of Public Support Following Diabetes Announcement

Wow, that's a grave-read­y game of chance that nobody should ever play. But it makes you realize that the South can't rise again - if it can't stand up. Hmmm...may­be Paula Deen's a Yankee!
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