Henry Waxman is calling it quits. The only thing I know about Waxman is what I saw in Bigger Stronger Faster, namely that he had no idea what the legal drinking age was at the time.
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
Henry Waxman is calling it quits. The only thing I know about Waxman is what I saw in Bigger Stronger Faster, namely that he had no idea what the legal drinking age was at the time. [/quote]
I am more concerned with the shit bag we will elect to replace him.
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
Henry Waxman is calling it quits. The only thing I know about Waxman is what I saw in Bigger Stronger Faster, namely that he had no idea what the legal drinking age was at the time. [/quote]
Luckily anytime some longtime politican retires I know we are only a short matter of time from replacing him/her with either a leftist crony dumbass or a righty crony dumbass.
The choices are always so awesome! Depending on the state we often know if it will be a control you right wing person or a control you left wing person! Man, politics is fun. Let’s just hope the next person can serve a long time. I don’t like replacing crony politicians with crony politicians so much. Voting is just tiring. I like it when we can keep the same people in. I don’t like learning new names.
/sarcasm
[quote]H factor wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
Henry Waxman is calling it quits. The only thing I know about Waxman is what I saw in Bigger Stronger Faster, namely that he had no idea what the legal drinking age was at the time. [/quote]
Luckily anytime some longtime politican retires I know we are only a short matter of time from replacing him/her with either a leftist crony dumbass or a righty crony dumbass.
The choices are always so awesome! Depending on the state we often know if it will be a control you right wing person or a control you left wing person! Man, politics is fun. Let’s just hope the next person can serve a long time. I don’t like replacing crony politicians with crony politicians so much. Voting is just tiring. I like it when we can keep the same people in. I don’t like learning new names.
/sarcasm [/quote]
Lol, true…
[quote]Sloth wrote:
Oh my.[/quote]
And predictably almost zero response from the mainstream media.
Kinda funny this was posted today:
[quote]H factor wrote:
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
Henry Waxman is calling it quits. The only thing I know about Waxman is what I saw in Bigger Stronger Faster, namely that he had no idea what the legal drinking age was at the time. [/quote]
Luckily anytime some longtime politican retires I know we are only a short matter of time from replacing him/her with either a leftist crony dumbass or a righty crony dumbass.
The choices are always so awesome! Depending on the state we often know if it will be a control you right wing person or a control you left wing person! Man, politics is fun. Let’s just hope the next person can serve a long time. I don’t like replacing crony politicians with crony politicians so much. Voting is just tiring. I like it when we can keep the same people in. I don’t like learning new names.
/sarcasm [/quote]
The former Port Authority official who personally oversaw the lane closings at the George Washington Bridge, central to the scandal now swirling around Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, said on Friday that ?evidence exists? the governor knew about the lane closings when they were happening.
In a letter released by his lawyer, the former official, David Wildstein, a high school friend of Mr. Christie?s who was appointed with the governor?s blessing at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which controls the bridge, described the order to close the lanes as ?the Christie administration?s order? and said ?evidence exists as well tying Mr. Christie to having knowledge of the lane closures, during the period when the lanes were closed, contrary to what the governor stated publicly in a two-hour press conference? three weeks ago.
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
Henry Waxman is calling it quits. The only thing I know about Waxman is what I saw in Bigger Stronger Faster, namely that he had no idea what the legal drinking age was at the time. [/quote]
besides being the ugliest mofo in washington dc he proved repeatedly how f___in stupid he was. he helped write obamacare.
quote:
"Among his legislative victories was the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which he helped WRITE and push through the House. Passage of the law fulfilled “one of my lifelong dreams” by guaranteeing access to healthcare coverage for Americans, he said. ( you sure helped you f___in socialist dumbf__k)
i thought bigger, stronger, faster was a very informative movie. especially when the anti-steroid segment showed those pushing for more control were know-nothings, with an axe to grind or wanted media exposure to help themselves.
only in california can a dude like that be elected continually for four decades.
Waxman can finally go back to Whoville.
[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
Kinda funny this was posted today:
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Oh man. My wife used to have to put out fires when she was a transfer agent for a bank representing a bunch of foreign companies.
Try telling somebody that the net on their hundred some thousand dollars in Schlumberger was gonna net them eh, maybe 50K. after taxes without it blowing up like an Iraqi oil well.
[quote]sufiandy wrote:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/01/30/does_watching_fox_news_make_you_less_informed.html[/quote]
we have gone over this in years past on T-Nation. you can make a statistical graph for ANY statement you want furthered. you can make it say anything.
that’s why certain people that have stood on the “study or graph” as proof of what they believe in are easily put into check-mate.
it is a non issue.
npr for well rounded news… that graph is a joke.
nielsen ratings (boxes or meters capture what channel is being tuned to know what is ACTUALLY being watched) has shown Fox beats out CNN,NBC, MSNBC combined.
if you don’t watch several hours of Fox News or drudgereport.com daily you are really out of touch with the what is going on. news organizations OMIT an awful lot of stories. (a theme i tried to ram into a few asses here on T-Nation)
i don’t recall Fox News omitting anything about governor Christie and they mentioned the republican governor of Georgia. he was blamed by msnbc for a lack of salt crews that should have been out, but didn’t mention the atlanta mayor, Muhammad Kasim Reed (a democrat.)
numb nutts that don’t know how to drive in 2 inches of snow. come on Atlanta… one of the past murder capitals of the u.s. and now they can’t handle 2 inches of snow.
Fox did not omit story on Rep. Michael Grimm a republican who threatened to throw reporter over balcony if he ever tried to blindside him again with interview gotcha moment.
i would say those who DO NOT read drudgereport.com are also less informed.
Cheating Probe Roils Philadelphia School System
Nearly 140 teachers and administrators in Philadelphia public schools have been implicated in one of the nation’s largest cheating scandals, according to district officials who also said Wednesday that they expected to discipline or terminate several school-based employees over the next few weeks in connection with the allegations.
Jesus H Christ this looks bad.
DNA Of Ancient Human Spawns New Theory Of Why Europeans Became White
[quote]Sloth wrote:
DNA Of Ancient Human Spawns New Theory Of Why Europeans Became White
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dna-ancient-human-spawns-theory-185256880.html[/quote]
Why this is silly:
If Vitamin D deficiency were the single driving force, over generations of selection, for depigmentation of Europeans, then the fossil record would be replete with skeletons (Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, take your pick) with all the findings of rickets.
This is not the case.
I would look for a more plausible alternative reason in the DNA extracted from a tooth of a single individual.
Maine Supreme Court rules in favor of transgender girl in Orono school bathroom case
http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/15/4754973/state-of-the-state-brownback-tells.html
This is an interesting fight. Kansas Supreme Court may tell Legislature that they aren’t funding public schools enough (school funding has been slashed big time over the last few years). Brownback saying let the Legislature decide it and not the courts. Meanwhile wants school districts who are already pissed as shit at him for all the cuts to public education recently to add all day kindergarten. Some people for the all day kindergarten being mandated and others vehemently against it. And everyone wondering where the money comes from.
It’s enough to make anyone’s head hurt. We may be really stupid, but we aren’t boring. We have really spent a lot of money fighting the good fight against voter fraud in a state where no one has an incentive to cheat because everyone votes for the same party. Just cause a problem doesn’t exist here doesn’t mean we can’t spend millions to stop it.
[quote]H factor wrote:
http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/15/4754973/state-of-the-state-brownback-tells.html
This is an interesting fight. Kansas Supreme Court may tell Legislature that they aren’t funding public schools enough (school funding has been slashed big time over the last few years). Brownback saying let the Legislature decide it and not the courts. Meanwhile wants school districts who are already pissed as shit at him for all the cuts to public education recently to add all day kindergarten. Some people for the all day kindergarten being mandated and others vehemently against it. And everyone wondering where the money comes from.
It’s enough to make anyone’s head hurt. We may be really stupid, but we aren’t boring. We have really spent a lot of money fighting the good fight against voter fraud in a state where no one has an incentive to cheat because everyone votes for the same party. Just cause a problem doesn’t exist here doesn’t mean we can’t spend millions to stop it. [/quote]
After some digging, I found out that your state is ranked only 1 spot lower than mine (36th vs 37th) in the nation in overall education. The reason I contrasted it with mine, is that we spend over $40 Billion per year on education, yet get piss poor results.
I think an increase in education spending should go hand in hand with a very close watch of how that money is spent.
“It’s for the children” seems to be a common theme when wanting to increase funds, when in fact it is such a nebulous euphemism that unless you monitor exactly where that money goes, it can easily go to waste.