itt we act disgusted at right wing savages

After the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Hutchinson became interested in arming school personnel, he said. He was invited to attend an “active shooter” training and - using a rubber bullet-loaded pistol - he mistakenly shot a teacher who was confronting a “bad guy.”

The experience gave Hutchinson some pause, but he still supports giving schools the authority to decide how best to secure their campuses.

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013/aug/28/school-districts-hoping-keep-security-lic-20130828/

Ted Falconi wrote:The experience gave Hutchinson some pause, but he still supports giving schools the authority to decide how best to secure their campuses.

Conservatism is a mental disorder

50 YEARS AFTER MARCH ON WASHINGTON PEOPLE STILL LISTEN TO BROADWAY MUSICALS.

Was gonna make a smartass post but all I could do was blink at that a few dozen times.

I assume we're not posting in this thread right now only because we would never stop posting in this thread right now.

my boss is going to Washington D.C. next week to do some research at the National Archives

OH WAIT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES ARE CLOSED LOL

I planned this trip to the Garden of the Gods in southern Illinois for next weekend. I was in touch with a bunch of campsites but I am not\w limited to only the state-run grounds because of this bullshit. Doesn't matter to me though. I am breaking into that place, hard.

Fuck you John Boehner! I do what I want!

itt i explain how to be impervious to right wing savagery.

That can't be real...please, tell me that that's not real.

Parked next to this car at Caputo's in Algonquin yesterday. Don't miss the NRA cap in the rear window!

sorry wp, but the real garden of the gods is in colorado

Driving a Honda Accord? RINO ALERT

ClosetOfExhaustion wrote:sorry wp, but the real garden of the gods is in colorado

Yes, I know. Has anyone been to the Illinois version in Shawnee National Forest and can attest to it being an enjoyable experience? Don't wanna waste my time if it sucks.

undo wrote:

this is one of the worst things ever and basically why

jasperness wrote:Conservatism is a mental disorder

Email from Mom

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2:37 AM
[Keep this message at the top of your inbox]
To: Dxxx, Mike Dixon, cxxx

If you can believe it, the real government's Obamacare helpline phone # is 800-318-2596 which is:

1-800-3(F) 8(U) 2(C) 5(K) 9(Y) 6(O)
Note: The number 1 isn’t assigned a letter.

I'm really scared about the future of this country and our children's futures.

B

If Eff-One-Uck Yo catches on, this is where it started.


And in case you didn't already know (I recommend acting like you did though if you are confronted with this bs), Medicare has been using this number since 1999.

I don't get it. Is it like, "damn I hurt my back, call that number!" "What number?" "It hurts, fuck yo!"

I am just glad this isn't happening near any major holiday. I couldn't stand to listen to this sort of talk while trying to get my turkey & stuffin' on.

Not a great movie by any means, but if you savagery houndz would like to see some proto-RWS you may want to check this documentary out.

as a Canadian, I don't really understand what this is all about.

Do republicans think free health care is evil?

WTF America.

 

Well, that's the message of some of the partisan propaganda. But beneath that it's probably a bit more complicated.

Historically America has had a healthcare system where a lot of people can inefficiently get fairly high-quality but overpriced healthcare and some people get none. While few people thought this was a great system, it was hard to change because it worked well enough for enough people that they were/are resistant to change that may involve a short-term drawback, and the people who would get the long-term benefit from the change (the working poor) are not as well organized or informed about what the Affordable Care Act actually does.

Most people like most of the major discrete elements of the law. If it survives for the next year or two, it will probably be here for good. The same kind of thing happened with programs that most Republicans take for granted now, like Social Security.

raj gibson wrote:While few people thought this was a great system, it was hard to change because it worked well enough for enough people that they were/are resistant to change that may involve a short-term drawback, and the people who would get the long-term benefit from the change (the working poor) are not as well organized or informed about what the Affordable Care Act actually does.

Most people like most of the major discrete elements of the law. If it survives for the next year or two, it will probably be here for good. The same kind of thing happened with programs that most Republicans take for granted now, like Social Security.

substitute 'heath care' with any other major policy issue and this describes every reaction by the Right Wing movement since The New Deal.

America has always been a great place if you're an oligarch. in the post-WWII era there was enough "trickle down" wealth to sustain the white middle class for a few decades. now everyone else in America wants their GI Bill.

jasperness wrote:substitute 'heath care' with any other major policy issue and this describes every reaction by the Right Wing movement since The New Deal.

Well, I think this level of insurgency from the minority party is unprecedented. To take a law that passed Congress, survived the Supreme Court, then survived a presidential election, and then destroy the economy not even to stop it but just to protest it, when has that ever happened before? In the past the speaker of the house would have whipped these guys into shape and compromised in one way or another, for the good of the party.

And the oligarchs have lost control! They don't want a shutdown or a default. They're getting a shitty return on their investment. You increase inequality far enough you're going to make populist movements inevitable... whether it's from one end or the other, Occupiers or Tea Partiers.

When I had to buy free market health insurance for my family of 3, it cost over $1000 a month. No pre-existing conditions, all under 40, just cuz.
Then we got BlagoCare for my daughter and it cost $25 / month and was the same but with lower deductibles, and all the checkups she needs for school are free. With her off our plan it still cost almost $800 a month.
That's what some people think is "the greatest healthcare system in the world".