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11424. judithathome - 8/6/2014 1:12:04 AM Steve King Is Lucky a High IQ Is Not A Qualification For Serving In Congress
...The video's description identifies the pair as Erika Andiola and Cesar Vargas. In the video, Andiola approaches King and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), telling them she's a Dreamer who's originally from Mexico but was raised in the United States and is a graduate of Arizona State University. (Paul quickly got up and left.)... 11425. judithathome - 8/6/2014 1:14:33 AM After seeing more of that Steve King video, I have to say, I don't blame Rand Paul for escaping from that debacle...I blame him for being there in the first place but anyone who wants to avoid being tarred by the stupidity spewed by that asshole King is just trying to survive the avalanche of what that jerk deserves.
King actually asks this young lady if she is a drug dealer...then he tells both the young people that he is sorry they come from a "lawless country" but "please don't bring that lawlessness here". (As an aside, I'd like to ask Steve King just who BUYS all those drugs dragged over the border by Mexicans with calves the size of cantaloupes...it's not Canadians, you asshole.)
The young lady has graduated college and qualifies for a law degree but can't get it because she is not a "citizen"; ditto the young man with her: he tried to enlist in the military but cannot because he is an "immigrant".
These two people, who would be the sort of citizens we should be welcoming, were treated like dirt by an arrogant asshole who got a lot of xenophobes from Iowa to vote his ass into Congress.
It's embarrassing to see this fool get air time. And to know his image and what he stands for is going to be blasted on the airwaves world-wide. 11426. judithathome - 9/5/2014 7:34:00 PM F 15s Following Unresponsive Airplane Headed Toward Cuba
Since posting this on my forum, the F 15s dropped out as the plane flew over Cuba...the Cubans let the plane cross over and the F 15s picked up the trail after the small plane cleared Cuban airspace.
The windows of the plane are fogged up and they are calling this incident "hypoxia"...same as when the golfer Payne Stewart died in similar circumstances.
11427. judithathome - 9/5/2014 7:38:16 PM Okay...update: Plane has cashed on the island of Jamaica. 11428. judithathome - 9/29/2014 4:40:21 PM Day of mourning for the ladies: George Clooney has married a lovely and very intelligent woman in Venice over the weekend. 11429. judithathome - 10/1/2014 6:39:00 PM Be on the lookout: Prepare yourselves for the firing/resignation of the head of the Secret Service...and headlines that you just can't trust a woman with a serious job.
Frankly, after watching her performance before the House committee, I'd fire her myself.
One Rep. held up an ADT Home Security sign and said "These guys are cheaper and are ready 24/7". 11430. iiibbb - 10/1/2014 9:40:13 PM A counter point is hiring a woman for women's sake can be bad for women.
But given the level of incompetence in government agencies today, she is not alone by any stretch. The myriad of stories and statements coming out of the CDC really makes you wonder why I couldn't get a government job.... or maybe it explains everything. 11431. judithathome - 10/1/2014 11:00:18 PM Director of the Secret Service resigns today....
11432. judithathome - 10/9/2014 9:58:27 PM Here's an interesting story about a school football season being cancelled because of what SOME people are calling a schoolboy prank and what others are calling an outrage: it involves a sexual practice called a "Dirty Sanchez" and you will have to look THAT up in the Urban Dictionary for yourselves.
Really? Kids Will Be Kids? WTF? 11433. judithathome - 10/11/2014 1:47:01 AM Microsoft CEO Makes Inane and INSANE Comment About Womens' Pay Equity
And he did this at a "Women in Tech Appreciation Conference".
11434. judithathome - 10/15/2014 7:19:04 PM Second patient with Ebola at the Dallas hospital is going to be transferred to Emory Hospital in Atlanta...she was one of the healthcare workers who treated Duncan. That makes two healthcare workers who have contracted the disease from Duncan...and exposed god only know how many others.
And she must have been the most stupid: she flew to Cleveland, stayed with family there, and checked herself into the Dallas hospital the morning after she flew back to Dallas...checked herself in with a fever.
What sort of idiot decides to fly across the country while self-monitoring for EBOLA??
I suppose the sort whose Governor has been MIA since the first patient with it died at that Dallas hospital...Rick Perry is getting as far away from this as he can: he's currently in EUROPE. The week Duncan was admitted, Perry went to Iowa to spread his charm around...that evidently wasn't far enough.
Those glasses only make him LOOK smarter than he is.
11435. iiibbb - 10/15/2014 7:45:40 PM So... I am concerned about Ebola for the people who will suffer the disease.
But I can't help my smugness that the same buffoons who bemoan Obama and Taxes and saw to it that we had a Congress that cut research funding are the ones freaking out the most about the "epidemic".
Unfortunately, it's not going to change their behavior in the long run, and my smugness isn't going to help the people who get it.
So I'm trying to squelch it. I am going to have to start ignoring/unfriending the fearmongers populating my facebook feed. 11436. iiibbb - 10/15/2014 7:47:24 PM A guy from the NiH said they probably would've had a treatment by now if funding had not been cut. But that's easy to say. 11437. judithathome - 10/15/2014 11:13:31 PM Well, it's also obvious...but I think part of the problem is that a great number of Americans would see developing a drug to cure this particular disease as a waste of time and money because it would have only benefitted people "over there".
The majority of people in the USA don't think "globally" even though the proof of not doing so is now right on their doorstep. 11438. judithathome - 10/16/2014 10:08:28 PM Watched the House hearings on this "crisis" today and all I can say is, the Republicans may have come back from campaigning for this hearing but they are still on the campaign trail. 11439. judithathome - 10/17/2014 9:37:00 PM Take This Test: Calm Down: You Are Not Going To Get Ebola 11440. iiibbb - 10/18/2014 12:02:15 PM In the past 12 months my internet news experience has gotten very bad. NBC/MSNBC went to an unusable tile format. Not happy with CNN, BBC, or USANews. I have been using Google news because it is partially customizable, but the other thing I've noticed is that a vast array of news sites are so format/ad heavy the page won't load any usable or readable way on most mobile devices. Even if the reporting is halfway decent this trend utterly sucks.
May I just say that perhaps I'm waxing nostalgic about journalism' but reporting to me seems exceedingly poor these day. For a time, the internet was a good source of information, but it has turned the corner. I think it's making people dumber.... Well more ignorant.
The internet is no longer about facts or truth. It is about point of view, perhaps just shy of punditry. It is making the unsophisticated and untrained more ignorant because the have no capacity to filter the bullshit. 11441. arkymalarky - 10/18/2014 3:31:07 PM AP is what I use. but I agree with your sentiment on general news. there's still lots of good stuff out there, in depth, but not from general news sources.
try AP. it's free and customizable and I like it better than google news. 11443. iiibbb - 10/18/2014 5:19:11 PM Thanks for the AP suggestion. I do like the articles there. I didn't realize they had a decent news homepage.
What irks me about Google is it's to egalitarian. I've been taken to some very bad articles and clickbait. 11444. arkymalarky - 10/18/2014 5:25:01 PM yeah, I deleted it. I hate yahoo too.
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