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Jack Kingston Says There's 'No Such Thing As Fre lie______detector2014-02-13 03:50:34Jack Kingston Says There's 'No Such Thing As Free Lunch,' But Gets Free Lunch All The Time WASHINGTON -- Weeks after Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) made headlines for suggesting low-income students sweep cafeteria floors to learn there's "no such thing as free lunch," Savannah TV station WSAV 3 looked at the "free lunches" Kingston himself has received as a member of Congress. There's no precise way to count the number of lunches Kingston has enjoyed on taxpayer dollars, but the station took a look at expense reports and disclosures to uncover staggering figures from the congressman's three years in office. According to the station's investigation, Kingston and his staff have expensed $4,182 worth of "meals for business purposes," and recorded $4,289.33 in free meals from third-party interest groups, including the Congressional Institute and the Georgia Bankers Association. As a member of the House Appropriations Committee, Kingston has traveled to four continents, racking up $24,313 in per diem allowances. While the allowances were allotted for more than just lunch money, midday meals were included. Beyond taxpayer dollars, Kingston has enjoyed many free meals on the campaign trail. WSAV 3 reported $145,391.26 in expensed meals and catering for campaign events, $26,066.45 of which was charged at the Republican Club of Capitol Hill, an exclusive, members only venue. "Isn't this a free lunch?" a WSAV 3 reporter asked Kingston. "This is what we need in America," Kingston responded. "We need workfare over welfare. I learned a lot when I was 14 and 15 years old doing chores inside and outside the household and as a result i grew up with a good work ethic. ... It's hard in today's society to have a discussion where you want to challenge the status quo because of the 'I gotcha' politics." What Jesus says about homosexuality is.... he lie______detector2014-02-13 03:48:37What Jesus says about homosexuality is.... he doesn't mention it. He does however, have a lot to say about taking care of the Poor: Luke 6:20-21 Luke 6:20-21 Then he looked up at his disciples and said: 'Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. 'Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. 'Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. uke 4:16-19 Luke 4:16-19 When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written: 'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. Matthew 25:34-36 Matthew 25:34-36 Then the king will say to those at his right hand, "Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me." Mark 10:21-22 Mark 10:21-22 Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, "You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions. "Tea Party hatches quiet-but-insane plot against lie______detector2014-02-13 03:47:53"Tea Party hatches quiet-but-insane plot against democracy: Meet the “12 Percent Solution” I listened in to a recent conference call with conservative activists. Their latest scheme? Nullify laws they hate. What if there were a fourth branch of government that would allow the fans of “Duck Dynasty” to overturn Roe v. Wade, repeal Obamacare and pretty much nullify any federal law or Supreme Court decision they don’t like, based on the support of as little as 12 percent of the nation’s population? And what if that fourth branch already existed in the American constitutional order, just waiting to be properly realized? That’s basically the dream of conservative activist Charles Kacprowicz, as described in a recent conference call with supporters, effectively summing up many of the deepest hopes and fears of right-wing America in the post-Bush era. “The best that we have now is the idea of nullification. But the states right now do not have a provision in the Constitution that allows them to countermand laws,” Kacprowicz said. But he’s crafted a proposal that would change all that. “With this provision, in the Sovereignty and States Rights Amendment, they can countermand it, and they can disallow it when 30 states say ‘let’s stop.’ ” Naturally, Kacprowicz had a red meat example close at hand. “Obamacare right now has at least 26 states who have already filed lawsuits against the government for imposing on them the tax and the imposition of Obamacare on the states,” he continued. “That’s already going forward. So you have that right there. We need four more states and Obamacare is history. And so that’s the kind of power that this has in this sovereignty amendment.” Kacprowicz isn’t presently a leading player, but as this passage shows, he straddles two rising, radical state-level tendencies that the national media have woefully underreported so far: one an explosion of clearly unconstitutional “nullification” legislation, and the other a growing movement to call a constitutional convention (Kacprowicz prefers “amendment convention”) to pass a set of conservative dream amendments. Because he provides a uniquely crafted bridge between these two efforts, his ideas could prove significant in the near future. ‘Bette in Spokane’ For the last several month lie______detector2014-02-13 03:47:26‘Bette in Spokane’ For the last several months, conservative opponents of the Affordable Care Act, including congressional Republicans, have encouraged Americans to contact the GOP with “Obamacare horror stories.” To that end, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), the House Republican Conference chair, used her party’s official response to the State of the Union to highlight a woman in her home state who, she claimed, was better off before the law. “Not long ago, I got a letter from Bette in Spokane, who had hoped the president’s health care law would save her money, but found out instead her premiums were going up nearly $700 a month…. No, we shouldn’t go back to the way things were, but this law is not working.” Almost immediately, red flags went up among those who follow the health care debate closely. And for good reason: over the last several months, Republicans and their allies have put a spotlight on quite a few “Obamacare victims,” but the stories invariably fell apart after modest scrutiny. The local newspaper, the Spokeman-Review, tracked down Bette Grenier, who wrote the letter used in McMorris Rodgers’ remarks. [T]he “nearly $700 per month” increase in her premium that McMorris Rodgers cited in Tuesday night’s GOP response to the State of the Union address was based on one of the pricier options, a $1,200-a-month replacement plan that was pitched by Asuris Northwest to Grenier and her husband, Don. The carrier also offered a less expensive, $1,052-per-month option in lieu of their soon-to-be-discontinued catastrophic coverage plan. And, Grenier acknowledged the couple probably could have shaved another $100 a month off the replacement policy costs by purchasing them from the state’s online portal, the Health Plan Finder website, but they chose to avoid the government health exchanges. In a familiar situation, the horror story isn’t as horrible as we’d been led to believe. In this case, “Bette in Spokane” didn’t have a health care plan so much as she had insurance that covered catastrophic coverage – and nothing else – with a $10,000 deductible. In the official Republican Party’s SOTU response, all of these relevant details were ignored. Viewers were led to believe the law forced higher premiums on this consumer as part of some kind of inherent flaw in the system, but that’s not at all what happened in reality. unkRepublican plan: Audit rape victims, don't prote lie______detector2014-02-13 03:46:33Republican plan: Audit rape victims, don't protect pregnant workers Republicans must really, really want to distract voters from the economy, given how hard they're trying to change the subject to abortion, abortion, abortion, and also abortion. The March for Life is an annual event, which they're frantically trying to wring as much out of as they can. Then there's the proposed RNC resolution encouraging Republican candidates to talk about abortion more. Most of all, though, there's the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. There are already sharp limits on anything that could be construed as government funding for abortion. But this bill takes it the next step: It would ban medical-expense tax deductions for abortion, allowing exceptions only for rape, incest, and protecting the woman's life. It's so extreme it could lead to rape victims being audited by the IRS to be sure they weren't getting a prohibited tax subsidy. During a male-dominated House committee hearing on the bill, Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler tried to substitute a bill that would really protect women's and fetal health: the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. But his effort was voted down, and: I am proud to announce that next week, the House will vote once and for all to end taxpayer funding for abortions. #MarchForLife — @GOPLeader That's right. Rather than passing a bill that would require employers to make reasonable accommodations to protect the health of pregnant women, Republicans are going to pass a bill (in the House, anyway) that would audit rape victims. They're going to focus on raising taxes on people who get medical care they don't like rather than protecting the jobs of pregnant women like the Walmart worker fired for carrying a water bottle or the hospital cleaner who was forced onto unpaid leave rather than being allowed a lifting restriction. Or the Albertsons worker whose baby was born prematurely and died after the mother's request—backed up by doctors' notes—for light duty was turned down and after she was told to keep working despite being in pain. For these women, Republicans have nothing, not even as the fig leaf preserving the notion that life and women's health are what motivates their latest anti-abortion push. nloand they gather in pools to chat before or neverez2014-02-13 03:39:31during their time here offsite. I believe, and I could be wrong, that rarely do libs chat as an individual. unkANOTHER Florida Republican jumps to Dems... Ne lie______detector2014-02-13 03:32:34ANOTHER Florida Republican jumps to Dems... Neither party is ever glad when one of their own abandons their ranks to join the other team, but when a Hispanic woman in a swing state changes her registration from Republican to Democrat, it likely stings a little more. Former state Rep. Ana Rivas Logan is leaving the Republican Party, she announced Monday. She plans to register as a Democrat, she said. “The GOP of today is not the party I joined,” said Rivas Logan, who also served on the Miami-Dade School Board. “It’s not the party of my parents. It’s a party that has been radicalized and held hostage by a group of extremists.” In an interview with the Tampa Bay Times, Rivas Logan described the Republican Party as “a party that attacks women and minorities – and one that asked me, and my former Hispanic Republican colleagues in the Florida legislature, to turn on their own people by supporting extreme anti-immigrant policies.” And if this sounds vaguely familiar, there’s a good reason. Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist recently made one of the more notable switches in recent memory, not only becoming a Democrat, but positioning himself for another statewide campaign with his new party, making similar remarks about the state GOP. What’s more, note that Rivas Logan’s story is not dissimilar to that of Pablo Pantoja, who, up until last spring, served as the state director of Florida Hispanic Outreach for the Republican National Committee. Then he switched, too. Pantoja said last May, after becoming a Democrat and making a contribution to the ACLU, “It doesn’t take much to see the culture of intolerance surrounding the Republican Party today.” Obviously, it’d be a mistake to extrapolate too much from two individuals changing their party affiliation, but given that the RNC is trying to boost its minority outreach efforts, it’s not at all helpful when folks like Rivas Logan and Pantoja make a splash by crossing the aisle. uvaI prefer to stand in front of it. My mother was fury_godmother2014-02-13 03:30:17a fighter for gender and race equality. I don't hide behind anything. What will you do, when faced with women, queers, non-whites who have the same rights as you? uvaI remember that nignog, too § khandoor992014-02-13 03:21:53boscount them, 9 Blacks and 3 whites hanging gone-fishing2014-02-13 02:45:13over his shoulder as he signs the law into place. They say we Whites are Racist, are all the workers Black? I didn't know there are more Blacks working than whites. http://ift.tt/1j30D49amsI just read your posting history. I encourage anais_ninja2014-02-13 02:03:18you to do the same. You notice that you post nothing but negative stuff? How is that working for you? How does that feel? Is this what the Lord wants from you?bsl^ dumbass is trying to redefine the definition Bastardo_grandes2014-02-13 01:43:43of "closet gay" because he just got busted using it as an insult. Hey Faggot Lover, don't gays have the right to privacy like the rest of us? You just implied that they don't by claiming that I was one. Sit down and shut up! You're making a fool of yourself!!bslGood lord but you're stupid. jesushasmyback2014-02-13 01:40:06The insult is not that you're gay; it's that you're closeted. The fact that you're closeted is evidenced not only by your rampant and overt homophobia (indicating as it does your own sexual insecurity) but your constant references to graphic homosexual acts any time gays are mentioned even in a non-sexual context, as with my OP - indicating your obsession with homosexual sex itself. The fact that you need to have all this spelled out for you is merely the 17,428th instance of you parading your stupidity around the forum. And incidentally, I'm not a Democrat.bslOf course I do! jesushasmyback2014-02-13 01:33:12Tho admittedly not from closeted dipshits like yourself...manMicrosoft steps up the ugly hypotwit2014-02-13 01:08:09Windows 8 has the ugliest interface I've ever seen with those big blocks of boring ugly-contrasted colors. And yet, did they learn? No, now they're making phones with it! sdoYou sound desperate. I didn't know you had such willwonka2014-02-13 00:37:20a flair for drama. Were you a theater major?sdoI doubt Oswald cared much about indochina. § artsoup_indeed2014-02-13 00:29:43sdoI'm sorry if you don't like reality § willwonka2014-02-13 00:17:42What i am talking about is your conclusion, willwonka2014-02-13 00:14:43which seems to have no basis in reality.I'm sure that you could google the facts if the 2014-02-13 00:10:30truth had any appeal for you.sdoWhat public statements did he ever make ibRightandLeft2014-02-13 00:08:49about wanting out of Vietnam? I just posted his news conferences for his entire term. He addressed Vietnam frequently and his commitment to avoiding a communist take over. You must have something I have never seen. It would be an interesting read. And the CIA? Wow that was a relatively new agency although morphed from the OSS. He wanted to change it's what? Structure? And the Federal Reserve? Our banking system? Who did he want to do that?I like the case you don't make § willwonka2014-02-13 00:05:49the missle gap ibRightandLeft2014-02-13 00:02:04never existed but Eisenhower couldn't reveal that information that Kennedy leveled at him. Those are the very people that went on to build the nuclear forces that we were under the impression was inferior to the Soviet Numbers. When they launched Sputnik, all of a sudden the American public too them serious as an advance modern power. They weren't but the North East corridor powerbrokers wanted America to think different. We were building the replacements to Jupitor Rockets and Titan I's while negotiating arms agreements with Russia. sdoHis back channel negotiations with Kruschev 2014-02-13 00:00:53And Castro is what really got him in trouble. I believe he signed his death warrant with this speech. http://ift.tt/1brs7BsI'll have you know that my nonsense always KenyanMonkeyFart2014-02-12 23:59:13gets challenged.lafI can see half you twerps are in a drunken stupo redmeat12014-02-12 23:58:39rrrrrrrrr....I'll back out of the room slowly....Nite......sdospeaking of JFK....he used to do three press ibRightandLeft2014-02-12 23:50:40conferences a month mostly. He was such a charismatic figure and witty. He was as good a policy wonk as Nixon. Read the text of any press conference and listen to him answer questions without dodges. Handlers do not let their Presidents do that today. JFK did a couple notable things including the huge expansion of our nuclear forces. And the stare down with Kruschev, which was a close call. He was only moderately popular when he was killed but I can't think of anyone who would have beat him. Check out how brilliant he was. http://ift.tt/1brs6xfRecanting? Their original statements are clear. 2014-02-12 23:42:20If you don't know that, I probably won't be much help to you.KenyanMonkeyFart

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