Sum It Up
The Sum It Up question from Sunday was: Do you support a state legislative proposal that would prohibit sales of lottery tickets to people who receive public assistance or who are in bankruptcy?
It makes me wonder why those who cry the loudest about government interfering in their private lives and business are so eager to have government tell other people how to live their lives. While I may think that there are more important things to buy than lottery tickets, it is not for me - or the government - to tell anyone else how to spend their money.
DAVID M McMAHON
I would support a proposal that would prohibit sales of lottery tickets to people who receive public assistance or are in bankruptcy as long as they also put restrictions in place for the sale of tobacco products, too, and our state legislature will never agree to that.
SUZANNE CARROLL
I think the prohibition is on the right track. We are just not tough enough on the poor and those facing the hardship of bankruptcy. To really make our point we should make these people wear bright red arm bands so they are easily recognized.
How about coming down hard on children who are on the free lunch program? I think if they are caught eating a candy bar they should be suspended from school for at least two days. We need to face the fact that the condition of poverty is not humiliating enough, and we need to kick people when they are down.
I was opposed to the state lottery in the beginning, and that position has not changed. Many of us were concerned that the people who could afford it the least would use it the most. But the lottery is now legal, and we cannot arbitrarily deny participation to a segment of the population.
Whenever politicians want to demonstrate how tough they are, all they have to do is slam the poor. The poor are usually among the most defenseless in our culture, and they are the most despised. Is there no end to the useless legislation being proposed by our present legislature?
CHARLES FRANCIS WILSON
The proposal reminds me of two things: first, the remark by the last GOP presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, who would like to write-off the 47 percent of the voters whom he deemed to be unable to take responsibility of their personal lives. Secondly, the "small government" crowd, who want to shrink the government to size so it can be drowned in a bathtub, keep on passing legislation after legislation to restrict women’s rights regarding their own health.
Besides, the proposal, if it became law, wouldn't pass the constitutional muster. Probably it would be acceptable to require that public assistance must be used for the purpose stated in the assistance program only.
BOON T. LEE
Please explain how this will work. Will we all be required to present proof of whether or not we receive public assistance or are in bankruptcy if we want to buy a lottery ticket? Or shall we just require everyone receiving public assistance or in bankruptcy to wear a scarlett "PA" or "B" on their coats, or tattoo it on their foreheads?
JANE MOTSINGER
Enforcement, therein lies the rub.
LLOYD V. EVANS II
While the goal of stopping wasteful spending of assistance money is laudable, the reality is this is a right-wing feel-good gesture that is unenforceable. Short of branding someone on welfare or in bankruptcy, how does a lottery ticket seller know what the buyers circumstances are?
I’d rather spend the money on finding the real fraud. Prosecute those accepting EBT for things other than food and prosecute the welfare cheat.
We cannot legislate morality. The lottery and sweepstakes parlors are sucker bets, but legal.
Better yet, don't sell them cigarettes; they spend more money on these, ruin their health and take food off the table. Don't sell them alcohol or junk food. Lunacy.
Let’s get real here, people, let’s get these people back to work and off the dole. Then they can be as stupid with their money as the rest of us.
KEN HOGLUND
Since our General Assembly is determined to suppress voting, why not add minimum income to its list of voting requirements? Also, how about taking away TVs, cell phones, electric toothbrushes, electric blankets, microwaves, dishwashers and all motor vehicles? Heck, I question allowing the poor to have running water or indoor plumbing. They obviously made poor choices and don't deserve any amenities.
As sarcastic as my remarks are, they are no more absurd than the proposed legislation. I keep wondering when these elected officials will act seriously and respectfully on behalf of all North Carolinians.
ANNE GRIFFIS WILSON
That has to be one of the most asinine proposals to come out of the legislature in my 68 years. How on earth would they propose enforcing it? Sounds good, but absurd.
FRANK SCISM
Wednesday, House Speaker Pro Tem Paul Stam backed off the proposal to prohibit lottery ticket sales to people on public assistance or in bankruptcy.
- The editor.
Our Republican legislature can come up with outrageous ideas to prevent people in bankruptcy or on public assistance from buying a lottery ticket, but bristle at the idea of coming up with ideas to keep felons, terrorists, or the mentally ill from buying weapons of violence at your local gun shows. And these guys get paid to come up with this stuff? Perhaps if they would concentrate on the economy and jobs, there might be fewer people on public assistance or in bankruptcy. So in other words, they are all for background checks for a $2 dollar lottery ticket, but not for background checks to buy weapons of violence at gun shows.
ReplyDeleteAnd they wonder why they've only won the popular vote ONCE in presidential elections since 1988. They only kept the House because of gerrymandering. The 200 Democrats in the 113th Congress won over a million more votes than the 233 Republicans (2 seats remain vacant). Can't win the popular vote fair and square, then change the rules not the policy stances... voter id, fewer days to vote, and last but least, gerrymander the electoral college.
DeleteGood AM, Bob!
DeleteSo, gerrymandering didn't occur when the Dems were in control?
Well of course it did. Gerry-mandering goes back to 1812 when Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts signed into law a bill that redistricted Massachusetts to benefit his Democratic-Republican Party and democrats have benefited from gerrymandering just like Republicans, but I do think gerrymandering the electoral college is a first.
DeleteYes gerrymandering did occur when the Democrats were in control, but the level of sophistication on which it is practiced now is unprecedented as illustrated by the popular vote count vs the actual representative head count.
DeleteEarlier this week, if I recall correctly, you expressed concern with the government knowing exactly how many firearms you process and indicated this is primarily why you prefer registration of individual permit holders rather than each individual firearm.
The people (government people) drawing up these gerrymandered districts know a lot about the people they assign to them. They probably already have a pretty accurate estimate of the number of firearms each household possesses as they use data supplied by commercial companies to compile this data. Many of these companies actually track purchases and merge other public information to form a marketing profile for use by the companies to which they sell this data.
It is really sad that districts are split even down to the precinct level although I will admit that precinct splitting is not strictly a republican endeavor.
Amen, brother Phargo.
DeleteTypical, dopey Democrats. It's not so bad when Democrats are manipulating voting districts, but now it's horrible.
DeleteWhat's the word? Pathetic!
I'm sure our liberal contributors will make fools out of themselves before the day is done, yet aGaIn.
Good AM Wordly. I think tracking licensees would furnish more accurate data. Many gun sales are made at gun shows and dealers at gun shows come from all over the place. Thus the geographic data would be pretty skewed if gotten from the manufacturers. Also I assume the trends like gun purchases are tracked by both sides. I'm sure that things like newspaper and magazine subscriptions and other kinds of purchases that might indicate political leaning are well tracked. Yes the level of sophistication increases. In 2010 the Republicans were cited for their effective use of technology in the elections that year. In 2012 that advantage shifted to the Democrats.
DeleteYes, the EC proposal was egregious. And the lottery means test was mean-spirited. I said a few a days ago that I hoped this Assembly would be better than the last. It will not.
ReplyDeleteThis GA will work better than the last because it has some sanity going for it.
DeleteWe don't need anymore 'Racist Justice Acts' enacted.
Stab, never underestimate a group of Democrats ability to do something incredibly stupid.
Bucky I agree with you. But the same thing can be said about Republicans just as easily. The general assembly proves that.
DeleteHumans, in general, but especially the male of the species, are incredibly stupid. Of all the species on Earth, humans are the only one intent on destroying it.
DeleteClearly and thankfully, it's a slow news day.
ReplyDeleteThere will always be people who cannot keep a dollar, and cannot manage money.
It was 75 degrees here in DC on Wednesday, and this morning I had to clean an inch of snow off our cars.
"There will always be people who cannot keep a dollar, and cannot manage money."
DeleteGG
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Like over 90% of Democrats. 'Ol Bev really did a number on this state. Now we're paying.
Hey GG, I saw an article that stated MD had the best K-12 schools in the country.
DeleteMD is another nice state that the Democrats have ruin.
DeleteThey have ruin [sic] New Mexico and Colorado too.
DeleteDxmned Democrats!
ruined:
DeleteCalifornia, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, the District.....they're like a disease.
Hi Dotnet, sorry I worked hard all day into this evening....
DeleteYeah, that's what I'm hearing. I think it's the same one MD has been getting every year, right? Sometimes I see Mass too.
Talking with one of my native MD friends, we noticed that either states have great roads or great schools. We couldn't think of a case of both.
We stretched to get into a house that lies squarely in the district of the best high school in the best county. The taxes are piercing, but, thankfully, houses in my neighborhood go like hotcakes.
Deleteanother SMH (shaking my head) House Bill 34, filed Thursday, would make it illegal for women to bare their nipples in public.
ReplyDeleteIt’s not about breastfeeding – which the bill would allow in public – but about clarifying that indecent exposure includes fully exposed breasts. Here’s what the authors write:
“For the purposes of this section, the term ‘private parts’ means external organs of sex and of excretion, including the nipple, or any portion of the areola, of the human female breast.” The male breast is not mentioned.
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/01/31/2647258/dome-nc-lawmakers-want-to-make.html#storylink=cpy
Female nipples are sexual objects to heterosexual men. Just like some distastful body parts are for homosexuals. It's all relative.
DeleteI wouldn't expect you to understand, Bob.
Good morning, Bob.
DeleteYes, I agree, heterosexual men are the problem, not women's nipples.
DeleteBucky, to men such as yourself, females are only sexual objects to begin with.
DeleteI have two suggestions regarding this bill. First, writethe law so that it covers men's chests equally. Second get rid of this stupid thing and get down to real business.
ReplyDeleteOr third, if you can't do anything better than this, adjourn and go home.
DeleteSome women are so trashy that they don't think anything about having their breats flopping around all over the place.
DeleteIt's sad that we have to even ponder such distasteful female conduct.
breats? No Sauza before lunchtime.
DeleteSome men are so trashy, they think women and their breasts are sexual "objects."
DeleteSorry. Like I've said before, my typing isn't the greatest.
DeleteMaybe I should have just typed 'boob'. That would have been easier.
no worries, I make typos too and use their/there incorrectly, but I also try to correct myself when I catch it.
Delete"They're going to store their breats [sic] there."
DeleteA sentence containing four of the most abused words in the language.
Here's another one. I see this all the time: "Ya'll". Makes no sense. The apostrophe is supposed to substitute for missing letters, so the correct spelling is "Y'all", as in "you all".
You won't see that in the NY Times, but you will in many other newspapers, magazines and books.
Speaking of boobs. And this is what he worries about all day. No wonder he's a NW.
Delete"Your" and "you're" is another frequent miss for people, including copy writers. And I'm always surprised to see people who are paid to write to use the ungrammatical "off of." No, you will not see that in the NYT. I hope.
DeleteThe corruption of formal writing is a concern to some of us. Y'all hear?
DeleteAren't you due in 'juvie' court about now Rush? Hee Hee...oh dear.
DeleteI'm going to start using 'you'uns' just to agitate the NW.
DeleteLike the lottery bill and the nipple bill, you are so stupid that you are not worth comment either.
DeleteFriday, September 13, 2013
Pride In Illiteracy Day
"You'uns" is the Pittsburgh equivalent of "y'all," regarded as standard English by most of that fine city's residents. Other gems from that area are "gumbands" for rubber bands, "dahntahn" for downtown, and of course, for their beloved football team, "Stillers."
DeleteHate women, hate gay men, spend most of your day on Internet message boards...
DeleteSomething tells me your personal life is, shall we say, less than satisfying.
I don't hate anyone Hatchman. I just find certain people 'distasteful', and problematic. That's all.
DeleteThey're much like rodents.
Yeah, I'm really feeling the love and serenity.
DeleteAnyway, hate women, hate gays, don't get out much. My point was you must not get laid very much...if you've gotten your Cialis refilled, that is.
DeleteHow's that new job Hatchman? Doing any good deeds for America?
DeleteDon't know about good deeds, but I am working hard. Which is more than can be said for your lazy ass.
DeleteI still like you Hatchman, even if you don't like me.
Delete"I still like you Hatchman, even if you don't like me."
DeleteNote that when Tiny gets slapped down over and over, which happens every day, he always finishes with some self pitying third grade cliche.
Centuries ago, dogs learned to roll onto their backs to expose their bellies to show submission to their owners or their more dominant pack members.
Poor Rush, if he's not getting chewed out and made a fool of by me, he seeks me out.
DeleteWho runs 'juvie' court now Rush? They probably won't let you back in regular court if I had to bet. Hee Hee...you're too much Rush.
Slow news day, yes, but the UR went up slightly while more jobs were created, certainly mixed news. The WH will no doubt spin it this way: Administration responsible for job creation, HR responsible for UR. And do it with a straight face, no doubt.
ReplyDeleteProbably with all the new years resolutions, more people entered the job market in January causing the slight uptick, but no matter how it's spun, we are much better off than 4 years ago in January when 598,000 jobs were lost. That's a turnaround of 755,000 jobs.
DeleteNo argument there, facts is facts; just commenting on the fame/blame game.
DeleteYes, in politics, "it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame."
DeleteI like that phrase Bob. And Democrats are experts at it.
DeleteAs Bobby Jindal said, the "stupid party".
ReplyDeleteThe lottery bill and the nipple bill are so stupid that they are not worth comment.
I have sent a bill down to Raleigh that, being in the spirit of the Republican party, is certain to pass:
"In order to participate in any legislative vote, all state senators and representatives must be naked at the time of casting the vote."
What a horrible image.
DeleteGood news...we don't have to watch. What happens in Raleigh, stays in Raleigh.
DeleteAnd Democrats are experts on that.
DeleteMore stupid, on background checks:
ReplyDelete"That's the way reductions in liberty occur," Hatch told reporters outside the Senate chamber. "When you start saying people all have to sign up for something, and they have a database where they know exactly who's who, and where government can persecute people because of the database, that alarms a lot of people in our country, and it flies in the face of liberty."
___Orrin Hatch, (R) Utah
Actually the bad case of stupid falls on you Rush. What else is new, right?
DeleteThe government could easily convert such a database to unconstitutionally collect/confiscate firearms one day under a tyrannical leader like Obama.
Laughable...
DeleteP-A-R-A-N-O-I-A Here comes the bogey man...quick, run hide in the basement, sissy.
Myth #1: They're coming for your guns.
DeleteFact-check: No one knows the exact number of guns in America, but it's clear there's no practical way to round them all up (never mind that no one in Washington is proposing this). Yet if you fantasize about rifle-toting citizens facing down the government, you'll rest easy knowing that America's roughly 80 million gun owners already have the feds and cops outgunned by a factor of around 79 to 1.
Yes, but to take the other side of the right to revolt argument, a 120mm gun, 2 7.62mm MG's, a .50-cal MG, and a 1500mm armor basis knock that ration back a bit :D
Deleteratio
Deleteand drones, cannot forget drones.
DeleteYes, I see the drones all the time, no doubt headed for Tiny's hovel. And don't forget the black helicopters. They sometimes land on the roof next door and I can hear them talking. They're not speaking English...sounds like French to me.
DeleteBe afraid...be very afraid.
One of Zach Reynolds' cars has come on the market.
ReplyDeleteDon't you wish that you had one in storage somewhere. As nutty as Zach could be, and he definitely could do that, his investments in cars, airplanes and guns have richly paid off for his heirs.
Hemi Cuda
A 1964 Aston Martin left in a barn for 33 years will be available on the auction block in May. I rode in an AM while in AZ. A most enjoyable ride.
DeleteFile under "Woulda Shoulda Coulda":
DeleteWhen I was in grad school, a guy offered to sell me a wrecked Ferarri 250 GT California Spider for $2500. Since I was in grad school, I didn't have it, but could have borrowed it but didn't...shoulda. Put a few thou into restoration work and...a few weeks ago, the same model sold at auction for $7.5 million, $8.2 million with the 10% sales commission.
I had an opportunity to buy a WW2 German MP40 SMG (misnamed "Schmeisser") in 1974, but I wouldn't meet the price. Wouldn't have been worth anything like the 250GT, but is Coulda-Woulda-Shoulda.
DeleteOne prayer that goes unanswered is, "Please, God, make it didn't happen." Or make it did, when it actually didn't.
Zach had a 1962 Pontiac Catalina with 421-cubic-inch engine, 3x2bbl carbs, 4-speed, and enough old-style CB gear (vacuum tubes) under his dash that it cramped his front seat passenger. The last time I Zach brought it up to us to have it serviced (the 3x2bbl setup needed to be adjusted from time to time), Zach was bleary-eyed drunk and smelled like a polecat.
ReplyDeleteActually, that '71 Hemi Cuda was a year past its prime. The manufacturers had to "detune" 1971 models slightly to meet emissions standards. 1970 was the last really unfettered year for performance in those days. Still, the car would be very fast.
DeleteHa, ha. Zach had a knack for smelling like a polecat and did do a bit of drinking.
DeleteBut he wasn't always smelly and drunk. He won many championships in motorcycle and drag racing and at least one National Championship in pistol shooting and another in aerobatic flying.
I left out the motorcycles above...at one point he had about 50, thought to be the largest private collection in the world at the time, including several really nice Nortons.
Legend has it that he and Will went on a motorcycle tour of Europe with Steve McQueen. This got passed around after the release of "The Great Escape," in which McQueen and/or stunt rider performed feats of derring-do on a stolen Wehrmacht motorcycle.
Deletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ccVu992CYE
DeleteYes, one of the great all-time movie scenes, from one of the great all-time movies.
DeleteApparently, the motorcycle tour did happen. Zach also palled around with Keith Moon and Bob Dylan, which led to one of the great moments in W-S entertainment history.
Joan Baez was performing at Wait Chapel on the Wake campus. She did a set, but when she came back out for the second set, she was carrying a second stool.
"Thought you might like to meet a friend of mine," she said. And out walked Dylan. They sang duets. Those on hand felt blessed by the gods.
Homeland Security posts active-shooter "survival guide" video
ReplyDelete"This type of incident can happen any day, anywhere across the United States, and people have to be prepared," security expert David Boehm told WCBS-TV.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57567077/homeland-security-posts-active-shooter-survival-guide-video/
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But the NWs of the world, like Rush, want to tell us how many bullets we need to protect ourselves.
What's the word? Pathetic!
Indeed, pathetic is the word. Scissors???
DeleteReminds me of the CheneyBush "orange" alerts...
P-A-R-A-N-O-I-A
Here comes the bogey man...quick, run hide in the basement, sissy.
You can't fix stupid. Rush is a prime example.
DeleteBe afraid...be very afraid, sissyboy.
DeleteBetter get over to 'juvie' court. They're waiting on you! Somebody stole a bicycle.
DeleteHee Hee....oh dear!
Good afternoon folks! Cold as crap, but at least no icy Friday for a change. 6 weeks down, 7 to go!
ReplyDeleteSum it up: As O.T. noted, Jindal's call for Republicans to quit being the "party of stupid" is going for naught at least in NC. Not surprising this proposed gem originated from Paul Stam whose purpose in being in office is to turn NC into a theological state. In addition to the "nipple law", we also have the call to eliminate all state personal and corporate taxes, turn all of Forsyth's schools into charter schools, various abortion proposals, not to mention McCrory's attempt to eliminate funding for the UNC system since so few workers have the required skills to get available jobs (a hint Gov McCrory: only 24% of North Carolinians have a bachelor's or higher. They have very few problems getting a job. They are doing fine. That means 76% did not graduate from college. 19% of North Carolinians did not even graduate from HS. They are the ones struggling to get jobs because they are the ones who lack the required skills, not the college grads.)
Good responses overall from the peanut gallery. In their zeal to make NC "business firendly", the current crop of legislatures is going to drive away any company thinking of relocating to this state. Being in the IT field, I know first hand that high tech employees absolutely do not want to live in a theocracy that deemphasizes education and science.
The nipple law makes more sense than the 'Racist Justice Act' that the Democrats passed.
DeleteA recent study published by the Treasury Department expands on dotnet's comment:
DeleteUnemployment by education:
Professional/PHD: 2.4%
Masters: 3.6%
Bachelors: 3.9%
Associate: 6.8%
College, no degree: 8.7%
High School: 9.4%
No high school: 14.1%
In addition, bachelors holders make about 167% of what high school diploma holders make.
I note in the news from yesterday that an armed guard at an Atlanta school disarmed a "student" who shot a classmate. The classmate was slightly wounded, now discharged from hospital. Charges are pending. Sometimes that armed guard idea might just pay off.
ReplyDeleteIn other shooter news, a fiend boarded a school bus in AL, shot and killed the bus driver, then kidnapped a 5-yo boy. He has been holed up in an underground bunker for 4 days. I hope all resources are being employed. The military has some very penetrating equipment that can "see" through a lot of opaque material.
Getting into the bunker without harming the boy is another matter. Still, I'd feel better if posse commitatus were waived on this occasion, and SEALs and Deltas were there.
While it is certainly good news that the shooter was disarmed before anyone else could be harmed, the fact still remains that despite the presence of an armed guard, a student was shot and could have died if the shooter had a better aim. As far as I'm concerned, the only acceptable threshold for shots being fired in school is zero.
Delete"Underneath every skirt, every dress, I'm wearing shorts," she explains. "So that everyone in the world knows, if I ever fell down, nobody would get a peek at anything."
ReplyDeleteCarrie Underwood
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Well...., that spoils it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVEBZLrjpw4
The N.C. Voter I.D. Law looks like it will pass with Republicans in control. Thank goodness. It's getting real old having all of these illegals voting.
ReplyDeleteUnder Democrat control, all you had to do is sign that you were a U.S. citizen, and they'd let you vote all you wanted.
DeleteI'll bet people from countries all over the global that were not U.S. citizens in the last election.
Thanks a lot you sleazy, corrupt Democrats!
I'll bet people from countries all over the global that were not U.S. citizens in the last election.
DeleteWHAT???????????????
It's not even 5pm and you're already sauzaed.
Delete"...from countries all over the global..."?????????????
DeleteIt's these tiny little boxes that you have to type in that make people stupid. Tiny little boxes don't kill, people typing in tiny little boxes kill...the language...dead!
globe
DeleteHey Bob, ded you understand my sexual analogy about nipples and other parts of the human body, or did that one fly over your head?
Deletedid...see what mean. My typing stinks.
DeleteIt's your so-called mind and rotten soul that stinks.
DeleteBucky, I've understood everything about you since I read your first post as LindseyGraham or as JohnG once called you Lindsey "Sugarbritches" Graham.
DeleteOkay Bob. I know you're smarter than the average bear.
DeleteFunny how you and Rush use sexist and gay bashing remarks?
Rush calling a male a sissy? Isn't that a degrogatory comment often made by one gay to another?
DeleteAs always, Tiny is in the ignorant minority.
Delete"Gay" means homosexual, as in sexual orientation.
"Sissy" means quivering coward, as in "Tiny", and has nothing to do with sexual orientation, except as used by Tiny and his ilk. In that context, using the term "sissy" is known as "sissyphobia", which equates to "homophobia", almost always indicative of a closeted gay.
Welcome to the LGBT world, Tiny.
And get tossed out in the courts.
ReplyDeleteTossed out is right...on its sniveling little xss.
DeleteToo bad, because I heard from a "reliable source" that 17 million illegal aliens voted in NC in November. They must not have liked Obama, because he still lost the state. Hmmm...
I knew I was forgetting another moronic law being proposed in my list of unmentionables: the photo voter ID bill.
DeleteNot necessarily moronic. The first step in a series that will end with a very simple law:
DeleteNo one except a white Anglo-Saxon protestant male member of the Republican party may vote in any election in this jurisdiction.
That's the goal. Hope and change.
Every U.S. citizen should be able to vote, not every person that wants to vote.
DeleteIt's clear that illegals have/had a motive to illegally vote, because they want to become legal citizens, and Obama offered the best probability to that pathway.
I'm just glad Bev. and her corrupt bunch of Democrats got thrown out so the Republican GA can start correcting many of the problems that the Democrats left behind. And there are many.
One example: The Racist Justice Act
The NRA doesn't offer any explanation of its selection process, or why they think it's a compelling argument to call attention to the fact that the Civil Rights organization founded by Martin Luther King Jr. opposes what the NRA does. But maybe they're on to something.
ReplyDeleteHere are 12 of the most terrifying people and groups on the NRA's list:
Carrie Fisher. Daughter of a Jedi.
Henry Winkler. Literally jumped a shark one time.
Mennonite Central Committee. You know who else had a central committee?
Barry Manilow. Is Barry Manilow.
The Temptations. Deliver us from them.
Motorcycle Cruiser Magazine. Basically what it sounds like.
Central Conference of American Rabbis. Ditto.
Mary Lou Retton. Her medal may be gold, but her bullets are lead.
Tara Lipinski. Actually wears knives on the bottom of her shoes.
Boys II Men. [sic]
Bob Barker. QED:
Southern Christian Leadership Conference. We don't actually have a joke here. How can you put the SCLC on your enemies list?
I've got a pair of those shoes.
DeleteYou're headed to the ABC for a gallon of Sauza and you encounter some sleaze in the alley, packing heat and munching a Chick-faux-A, you just do a little dance...snicker-snack...and he's gone to the happy trolling ground.
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DeleteWhen Chick-Fil-A president Dan Cathy made remarks last summer regarding his beliefs on marriage, he sparked outrage across the country as gay rights activists and members of the LGBT community fired back, calling him out for the statements.
DeleteCathy said that he and his company–which is rooted firmly in Christian values and keeps all stores closed on Sundays–are “very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives”, adding “we’re inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.”
His words led to immediate backlash and even created protests staged at some of the restaurants, where there were also “Chick-Fil-A Appreciation” and “National Same-Sex Kiss” days set up in response.
But despite the chain of events that Cathy set off with his remarks, the company hasn’t suffered, according to sales data. In fact, they actually saw a spike in sales, pulling in a whopping $4.6 billion in 2012, compared to $4.1. billion the year before.
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So much for Rush's stupid remarks about Chick-fil-A's growth. Of course, what else is new?
Another nice copy-and-paste without attribution for our leading scholar. Iguess it's the only way he make a post without mangling the American language.
DeleteAs always, Tiny is lost in space. I never said anything about Chick-fil-A's earnings, because, since CFA is a private company, nobody outside the company knows what the earnings are.
That was true then and it still is true now. If Tiny chooses to believe any numbers cited by CFA's president, that is his problem. Since CFA opened more than 200 stores in 2012, any comparison with 2011 earning numbers has no validity.
What I did cite is CFA's brand index score. The brand index is a daily poll of consumers in the US and is the business standard for telling how any brand is perceived by the public.
CFA has always had a high brand index rating in the fast food field. On July 10, 2012, the rating was 62, 13 points higher than the fast food average of 49. The Baptist Press published their interview with Dan Cathy on July 16, 2012. By July 27, CFA's score had plummeted to 35, well under the fast food average. By August 22, it had reached 30.
After that it rallied, getting back to the industry average of 49 on September 10. But after it became apparent that Cathy had hoodwinked the folks in Chicago into making positive comments about CFA, the score dropped back to 37 on September 19.
The most recent score is 40, 13 below the fast food average and 22 below its high of 62 in July.
I realize that all this is far too complicated for Tiny's tiny little brain, and wouldn't matter to him even if he was capable of understanding. After all, the facts have always been an inconvenience in his life.
Remember, he was turned down by the WSPD because of affirmative action, not because he was a bottom of the barrel candidate to begin with.
It don't make a hoot what the company's brand index score is. It made more money.
DeleteAgain, Rush just cannot resist an opportunity to make an idiot out of himself.
Like I said...way too complicated.
DeleteSad news for me this PM: my old cat Andy went into seizure this AM, at the vet, fortunately, and died. He was a fine cat and a good friend.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear that Stab.
DeleteR.I.P., Andy. From one cat lover to another my thoughts are with you, Stab.
DeleteMy thanks to you both, appreciated.
DeleteSo sorry to hear about Andy.
DeleteThank you, Wordly.
DeleteSo sorry to hear about Andy...I'm sure that he will be sorely missed. I'm sure that Zach Reynolds would join me in my condolences...along with cars and motorcycles and airplanes and guns, he was a huge cat fan.
DeleteOh, no, Staballoy. I'm so terribly sorry. I'm so sorry, I thought he was doing better. I know he lived a great life with you Staballoy.
DeleteThank you, GG and OT.
DeleteAnd thank you to Zach's shade. Cars, motorcycles, guns, boozing. All that separates me from Zach is a few showers and few dollars. He obviously loved life. So did my late kitty. Perhaps he and Zach are hitting it off right now :)
Thanks to all :)
Stab, you may be right. One time Will said "You notice that Zach left behind all the cars and stuff, but I'll bet he and Tiger (Zach's all-time favorite cat) have started some sort of cat heaven full of jungles and great places to climb up and watch everything."
Delete'Gay' dog gets euthanasia reprieve
ReplyDeletehttp://news.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/31/gay-dog-gets-euthanasia-reprieve/?hpt=hp_t2
It does happen in nature, just not too often. Bob is right.
DeleteObviously, Tiny is determined to make the Guinness Book of World Records for the most stupid statements ever made by a homo sapiens-like creature.
DeleteHomosexual activity has been observed in hundreds of species, including bears, rats, cats, dogs, cattle, elephants, lions, goats, chickens, ducks, seagulls, ravens, salmon, sunfish, lizards, turtles, snakes, salamanders, toads (especially Tiny toads), butterflies, wasps, fleas, crabs and spiders.
Young male flour beetles practice on each other for future encounters with female flour beetles. After all, they don't want to be laughed at, which is probably what happened to Tiny the first time he started humping some poor boy or girl's leg.
If Tiny had a dog, it would run away at the first opportunity.
William Maurice "Mo" Cowan, a native of Yadkin County, will serve as interim U.S. senator for Massachusetts until an upcoming special election.
ReplyDelete....in which former Senator Scott Brown will not run.
DeleteCan't blame Brown. Four statewide races in four years...that's rough.
DeleteEspecially in a liberal place like Mass. It's a miracle that he was elected in the first place.
DeleteI was hoping Frank would get it.
I like 'ol Barney, but who in their right mind would want to roll around with that hairy bear?
DeleteMaybe somebody like Rush. I think I've just answered my own question.
DeleteArthur makes a good point. Scott Brown has earned some time off.
DeleteHaving participated full time in two political campaigns in the 1960s, I can say that campaigning is a relentless, 20 hour-per-day, 7 day per week ordeal.
The only tougher time I have ever endured was in Viet Nam, and that was not because of the hours but because of the additional stress of being shot at now and then.
Considering the current gun nut insanity, before we're done, American politicians may soon get a taste of that as well.
Maybe Frank will run again. I'm going to miss him.
DeleteSeattle Seahawks punter Jon Ryan thinks Chris Culliver should be suspended for his negative comments about having a gay teammate.
ReplyDeleteThe 31-year-old Canadian gave his thoughts in a tweet posted late Wednesday night. He called for action against the San Francisco 49ers cornerback who caused the biggest stir of Super Bowl week when he said a gay teammate would have to "get up outta here" and that no one in the locker room could "be with that sweet stuff."
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The liberal media completely misses the point that the player may not have wanted to be sexually harassed by a gay player.
Yet another unattributed copy-and-paste by our forum plagiarist.
DeleteTiny certainly lives in a fantasy world, where reality never intrudes.
Chris Culliver is a corner back, not a backside back like Tiny. Corner back is one of the toughest positions in football to play, and some of the toughest customers ever to play in the league have been corner backs. The idea of anyone harassing a corner back, sexual or otherwise, is preposterous.
Culliver can, perhaps, be forgiven for a moment of poor judgment, because his life, unlike Tiny's, has not been easy. His mother was only 16 when he was born. When he was 8 years old his father and a cousin were shot to death, and his mother wounded, in a bar fight. While playing football at Carolina (South), he nearly died at age 20 from complications after shoulder surgery.
He has apologized for his "ugly comments" that were "not what I feel in my heart". In a reversal, he said he would welcome a gay teammate: "I treat everyone equal." He added that he loved San Francisco, which has a large gay community.
Perhaps he has come to realize that, from his earliest years in Pee Wee football to today with the 49ers, he has been sharing locker rooms with gay athletes all along the way.
All quotes are from the AP.
Culliver could have been a victim of a prior homosexual pedophilic attack. Maybe that's why he has an adversion to sharing a locker room/shower with another gay man.
DeleteLook at what happened in the Sandusky case.
I think the news media maybe overlooking some potential issues here in the name of poltical correctness.
Culliver could have been a girl, a Boy Scout, a skateboarder, an altar boy, a rock star, a truck driver, a politician, a member of the National Honor Society, a bully, a minister, a Republican, a doctor, a philanthropist, an artist or just about anything else.
DeleteAnd Tiny could have been a human being. All are equal possibilities.
But there is no evidence for any of that.