Judging by the fact that they have a Wal-Mart ribbon and a "God Bless America" sticker, I have to vote idiot.
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Ironic, or just an idiot?
I am trying to decide if this person is actually smart and making an attempt to be ironic, OR a complete idiot because the sticker preaching about speaking English uses "butt" instead of "but", and "your" instead of "you're".
Judging by the fact that they have a Wal-Mart ribbon and a "God Bless America" sticker, I have to vote idiot.
Judging by the fact that they have a Wal-Mart ribbon and a "God Bless America" sticker, I have to vote idiot.
They're taking away our rights!
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San Francisco voted to ban restaurants from handing out toys with meals that fail to meet basic nutritional standards for fat, calories, and sodium (for example, McDonald's can't put a toy in an "unhealthy" happy meal). Last month, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appealed to the U.S. Department of Agriculture requesting support for a new initiative that prohibits the use of food stamps for purchasing beverages with added sugar.And people are going CRAZY in protest.
In case you haven't noticed, childhood obesity is a major problem today. According to the CDC, childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years with children aged 6 to 11 years increasing from 6.5% in 1980 to 19.6% in 2008, and adolescents aged 12 to 19 years increasing from 5.0% to 18.1%. If parents will not take responsibility to feed their children properly, then government should oversee and mandate the process. It is not "taking away rights", it is preventing child abuse. And from a bigger picture perspective, it will hopefully stem the societal burden we are forced to accept in order to care for these people who - most likely - will not be able to contribute as functioning members of society.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think withholding the toy from a happy meal will make a dent in the problem. But as a wise man once said, baby steps in the right direction are better than standing still.
As far as the outrage about mandating that government aid cannot be used to buy unhealthy crap - give me a break. If I am paying taxes to help you (which I gladly do, because I realize that people often try their best but still need help), then you damn sure need to use my money to sustain yourself in a healthy manner and not make yourself LESS likely to "get back on your feet" one day.
It is time to end all this politically correct nonsense. It is not "mean" to point out people that refuse to step up and take personal responsibility for themselves or the care of their children. If their actions did not ultimately affect us as a society, I would understand the argument. But their actions DO ultimately affect us as a society, whether in the form of increased taxes, increased healthcare costs, or simply taking the focus off of real disabilities that need our attention and are not the result of laziness, stupidity, and ignorance.Sources:
Happy Meal Ban (POLL): Food Police or Protector?
New York attempts to ban use of food stamps for soda
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Childhood Obesity
Full text of Jon Stewart's speech at the "Rally to Restore Sanity"
"You go then I'll go."
This is a speech everyone should listen to, watch, or read - I don't know that I agree 100%, because it is hard to compromise with "bat-shit crazy" people. But it is a good speech nonetheless.
"I can’t control what people think this was, I can only tell you my intentions. This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith or people of activism or to look down our noses at the heartland or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear. They are and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus and not be enemies.
But unfortunately one of our main tools in delineating the two broke. The country’s 24-hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems, but it’s existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold it’s magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen - or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic.
If we amplify everything we hear nothing. There are terrorists and racists and Stalinists and Theocrats, but those are titles that must be earned. You must have the resume. Not being able to distinguish between real racists and Tea Partiers or real bigots and Juan Williams and Rick Sanchez is an insult, not only to those people but to the racists themselves who have put in the exhausting effort it takes to hate. Just as the inability to distinguish terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe not more. The press is our immune system. If we overreact to everything we actually get sicker...and perhaps eczema.
And yet with that being said I feel good — strangely, calmly good. Because the image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false. It is us through a fun house mirror, and not the good kind that makes you look slim in the waist and maybe taller - but the kind where you have a giant forehead and an ass shaped like a month-old pumpkin and one eyeball.
So, why would we work together? Why would you reach across the aisle to a pumpkin-assed, forehead eyeball monster? If the picture of us were true, of course our inability to solve problems would actually be quite sane and reasonable. Why would you work with Marxists actively subverting our Constitution, or racists and homophobes who see no one’s humanity but their own? We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is — on the brink of catastrophe, torn by polarizing hate. And how it’s a shame that we can’t work together to get things done. But the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!
The only place we don’t is here (Washington D.C.) or on cable TV. But Americans don’t live here or on cable TV. Where we live our values and principles form the foundation that sustains us while we get things done, not the barriers that prevent us from getting things done. Most Americans don’t live their lives solely as Democrats, Republicans, Liberals or Conservatives. Americans live their lives more as people that are just a little bit late for something they have to do — often something that they do not want to do, but they do it. Impossible things every day that are only made possible by the little reasonable compromises that we all make.
Look on the screen - this is where we are, this is who we are (points to the Jumbotron screen which show traffic merging into a tunnel). These cars — that’s a schoolteacher who probably thinks his taxes are too high. He’s going to work. There’s another car - a woman with two small kids who can’t really think about anything else right now. There’s another car swinging I don’t even know if you can see it — the lady’s in the NRA. She loves Oprah. There’s another car — an investment banker, gay, also likes Oprah. Another car is a Latino carpenter. Another car a fundamentalist vacuum salesman. Atheist obstetrician. Mormon Jay-Z fan. But this is us. Every one of the cars that you see is filled with individuals of strong belief and principles they hold dear — often principles and beliefs in direct opposition to their fellow travelers.
And yet these millions of cars must somehow find a way to squeeze one by one into a mile long 30 foot wide tunnel carved underneath a might river. Carved, by the way, by people who I’m sure had their differences. And they do it. Concession by concession. You go. Then I’ll go. You go then I’ll go. You go then I’ll go. Oh my God, is that an NRA sticker on your car? Is that an Obama sticker on your car? Well, that’s okay — you go and then I’ll go.
And sure, at some point there will be a selfish jerk who zips up the shoulder and cuts in at the last minute, but that individual is rare and he is scorned and not hired as an analyst.
Because we know instinctively as a people that if we are to get through the darkness and back into the light we have to work together and the truth is, there will always be darkness. And sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t the promised land. Sometimes it’s just New Jersey.
But we do it anyway, together.
If you want to know why I’m here and want I want from you I can only assure you this: you have already given it to me. You’re presence was what I wanted.
Sanity will always be and has always been in the eye of the beholder. To see you here today and the kind of people that you are has restored mine.
Thank you."
This is a speech everyone should listen to, watch, or read - I don't know that I agree 100%, because it is hard to compromise with "bat-shit crazy" people. But it is a good speech nonetheless.
"I can’t control what people think this was, I can only tell you my intentions. This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith or people of activism or to look down our noses at the heartland or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear. They are and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus and not be enemies.
But unfortunately one of our main tools in delineating the two broke. The country’s 24-hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems, but it’s existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold it’s magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen - or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic.
If we amplify everything we hear nothing. There are terrorists and racists and Stalinists and Theocrats, but those are titles that must be earned. You must have the resume. Not being able to distinguish between real racists and Tea Partiers or real bigots and Juan Williams and Rick Sanchez is an insult, not only to those people but to the racists themselves who have put in the exhausting effort it takes to hate. Just as the inability to distinguish terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe not more. The press is our immune system. If we overreact to everything we actually get sicker...and perhaps eczema.
And yet with that being said I feel good — strangely, calmly good. Because the image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false. It is us through a fun house mirror, and not the good kind that makes you look slim in the waist and maybe taller - but the kind where you have a giant forehead and an ass shaped like a month-old pumpkin and one eyeball.
So, why would we work together? Why would you reach across the aisle to a pumpkin-assed, forehead eyeball monster? If the picture of us were true, of course our inability to solve problems would actually be quite sane and reasonable. Why would you work with Marxists actively subverting our Constitution, or racists and homophobes who see no one’s humanity but their own? We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is — on the brink of catastrophe, torn by polarizing hate. And how it’s a shame that we can’t work together to get things done. But the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!
The only place we don’t is here (Washington D.C.) or on cable TV. But Americans don’t live here or on cable TV. Where we live our values and principles form the foundation that sustains us while we get things done, not the barriers that prevent us from getting things done. Most Americans don’t live their lives solely as Democrats, Republicans, Liberals or Conservatives. Americans live their lives more as people that are just a little bit late for something they have to do — often something that they do not want to do, but they do it. Impossible things every day that are only made possible by the little reasonable compromises that we all make.
Look on the screen - this is where we are, this is who we are (points to the Jumbotron screen which show traffic merging into a tunnel). These cars — that’s a schoolteacher who probably thinks his taxes are too high. He’s going to work. There’s another car - a woman with two small kids who can’t really think about anything else right now. There’s another car swinging I don’t even know if you can see it — the lady’s in the NRA. She loves Oprah. There’s another car — an investment banker, gay, also likes Oprah. Another car is a Latino carpenter. Another car a fundamentalist vacuum salesman. Atheist obstetrician. Mormon Jay-Z fan. But this is us. Every one of the cars that you see is filled with individuals of strong belief and principles they hold dear — often principles and beliefs in direct opposition to their fellow travelers.
And yet these millions of cars must somehow find a way to squeeze one by one into a mile long 30 foot wide tunnel carved underneath a might river. Carved, by the way, by people who I’m sure had their differences. And they do it. Concession by concession. You go. Then I’ll go. You go then I’ll go. You go then I’ll go. Oh my God, is that an NRA sticker on your car? Is that an Obama sticker on your car? Well, that’s okay — you go and then I’ll go.
And sure, at some point there will be a selfish jerk who zips up the shoulder and cuts in at the last minute, but that individual is rare and he is scorned and not hired as an analyst.
Because we know instinctively as a people that if we are to get through the darkness and back into the light we have to work together and the truth is, there will always be darkness. And sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t the promised land. Sometimes it’s just New Jersey.
But we do it anyway, together.
If you want to know why I’m here and want I want from you I can only assure you this: you have already given it to me. You’re presence was what I wanted.
Sanity will always be and has always been in the eye of the beholder. To see you here today and the kind of people that you are has restored mine.
Thank you."
Christians don't judge, and are tolerant and loving.
Clint McCance is from Arkansas, so you might excuse his ignorance as a product of inbreeding. But he is also a member of the Midland School Board which makes his "alleged" homophobic, hate-filled rant on Facebook all the more disturbing.
Here is what someone who helps oversee the education of our youth posts:
"Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers committed suicide. The only way im wearin it for them is if they all commit suicide. I cant believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid. We are honoring the fact that they sinned and killed therselves because of their sin. REALLY PEOPLE."
Regarding his own children:
"I would disown my kids if they were gay. They will not be welcome at my home or in my vicinity. I will absolutely run them off. Of course my kids know better. My kids will have solid christian beliefs. See it infects everyone."
And, this gem:
"No because being a fag doesn't give you the right o ruin the rest of our lives. It you get easily offended by being caleld a fag then don't tell anyone you are a fag. Keep that shit to yourself. I don't care how people decide to live their lives. They don't bother me if they keep it thereselves. It pisses me off though that we make special purple fag day for them. I like that fags can't procreate. I also enjoy the fact that they often give each other AIDS and die. If you aren't against it, you might as well be for it."
Thanks for continuing the stereotypes about religious whack-jobs, Arkansas residents, closeted gay men...
Here is what someone who helps oversee the education of our youth posts:
"Seriously they want me to wear purple because five queers committed suicide. The only way im wearin it for them is if they all commit suicide. I cant believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid. We are honoring the fact that they sinned and killed therselves because of their sin. REALLY PEOPLE."
Regarding his own children:
"I would disown my kids if they were gay. They will not be welcome at my home or in my vicinity. I will absolutely run them off. Of course my kids know better. My kids will have solid christian beliefs. See it infects everyone."
And, this gem:
"No because being a fag doesn't give you the right o ruin the rest of our lives. It you get easily offended by being caleld a fag then don't tell anyone you are a fag. Keep that shit to yourself. I don't care how people decide to live their lives. They don't bother me if they keep it thereselves. It pisses me off though that we make special purple fag day for them. I like that fags can't procreate. I also enjoy the fact that they often give each other AIDS and die. If you aren't against it, you might as well be for it."
Thanks for continuing the stereotypes about religious whack-jobs, Arkansas residents, closeted gay men...
You got your god in my politics!
If you aren't worried about the Tea Party and Republicans pushing religion into politics and public policy, you should be. We already have enough people in public office who think god is talking to them and guiding their decisions (even our former President*), we certainly don't need more.
If you aren't afraid, you aren't paying attention.
"God is the reason that I’m running. If I didn’t believe that there were a cause greater than myself worth fighting for, if I didn’t believe that it takes a complete dying of self to make things right in this election cycle I would not be running and when you die to yourself you rely on a power greater than yourself so prayer is what’s gotten us all through."
- Christine O’Donnell, Tea Party candidate**
*President Bush's response to Bob Woodward's question on whether he consulted his father (former President Bush) on invading Iraq was that he is "the wrong father to appeal to for advice ... there is a higher father that I appeal to". Also, Former Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath says Mr Bush told him and Mahmoud Abbas, former prime minister and now Palestinian President: "I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,' and I did."
**Two more bonus quotes from Christine O'Donnell:
"I am not a witch. I'm you."
"Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?"
If you aren't afraid, you aren't paying attention.
"God is the reason that I’m running. If I didn’t believe that there were a cause greater than myself worth fighting for, if I didn’t believe that it takes a complete dying of self to make things right in this election cycle I would not be running and when you die to yourself you rely on a power greater than yourself so prayer is what’s gotten us all through."
- Christine O’Donnell, Tea Party candidate**
*President Bush's response to Bob Woodward's question on whether he consulted his father (former President Bush) on invading Iraq was that he is "the wrong father to appeal to for advice ... there is a higher father that I appeal to". Also, Former Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath says Mr Bush told him and Mahmoud Abbas, former prime minister and now Palestinian President: "I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,' and I did."
**Two more bonus quotes from Christine O'Donnell:
"I am not a witch. I'm you."
"Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?"
Hi, I'm a Tea-Partier
This is the most comprehensive dissection of the Tea Party "talking points" I have seen to date. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry (cry because of the stupidity).
Share it with your friends - maybe it will open a few eyes.
And don't worry, I will get back to posting photos of fat-people after the elections next week.
Share it with your friends - maybe it will open a few eyes.
And don't worry, I will get back to posting photos of fat-people after the elections next week.
Obama supports communism?
You may disagree with his policies, but does he really support communism? I mean, how could that slip by the majority of Americans? And, Clinton was impeached for lying about frolicking with an intern - if Obama really supported communism, don't you think it would get more visibility and action?
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