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hijean831 commented on the blog post Late Night: A Poor Neighborhood Is Not FOR You
I’m reminded of a couple carloads of yuppie ‘tourists’ we got stuck by during a road closure after the ’89 Loma Prieta quake. While the locals were standing around numb and sharing small stories, they took the opportunity for an impromptu tailgate party, including booze, tossing a football around (and into others’ cars), laughing it up. Wanted to pound them.
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hijean831 commented on the blog post IRS Commissioner Fired
Especially when they arrive in droves. IRS would have been remiss NOT to spot-check these rubes.
Meanwhile, even if they’d checked ALL the TP-P applications, how is that partisan? These are all grassroots, independent, apolitical, blah, blah, organizations, are they not?
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hijean831 commented on the blog post The Roundup for May 8, 2013
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals “struck down . . . a rule [requiring] more than 6 million private employers to post notices telling workers of their right to join a union.”
Saw this story last night, and wondered if it would have relevance to abortion doctors who are required to lie to their patients…
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hijean831 commented on the blog post Eastman, NOM places status above love in families
As an adoptee, I once chewed ass on a coworker who said he’d never get a pound puppy because he didn’t know where it had come from.
I pity this asshole’s children.
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hijean831 commented on the blog post Pete Peterson Spent Half a Billion on Recent Push to Cut Entitlements
In the end, a bipartisan majority — 11 of the 18 members — voted for the recommendations, just shy of the 14 needed to compel congressional action.
Yet another example of skewing the math. 20% short is not ‘just shy’.
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hijean831 commented on the diary post The Pope, Pregnant Children, and Violence Against Girls and Women by RH Reality Check.
On the same day, by coincidence, a 12-year old in Argentina gave birth to twins after she “fell pregnant.” Like she tripped by accident.
Police in her town of Chilecito, 650 miles north west of the capital Buenos Aires, say they are treating the case as child abuse and have questioned two youngsters aged 16 and 20.
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hijean831 commented on the diary post The Pope, Pregnant Children, and Violence Against Girls and Women by RH Reality Check.
Many people, like these at the Landover Baptist Church think, “Ten-year old sluts getting pregnant is no reason for abortion!”
Landover Baptist is a parody site.
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hijean831 commented on the blog post Ortiz Abuses Authority Again, Slapped Down By Judge
It’s pretty safe to assume her management chain has been in on all her escapades, the whole lot of them should be canned.
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hijean831 commented on the blog post I Shot My Mouth Off And You Showed Me What That Hole Was For
Mika is the biggest wimp. From the snippets I’ve seen over the years, she’ll make a valid point, Teh Boyz will disagree, and she rolls over every effin’ time.
Mika – don’t use a big word when a little one will do; the one you were looking for was ‘dick’.
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hijean831 commented on the blog post The Roundup for January 7, 2013
“The wealthiest Americans save $3 trillion dollars a year through a system of subsidies and tax avoidance schemes, which totals three times more than our annual deficit. That’s enough for a full-time job for every middle-class household in America.”
But instead, they make a few 1% jobs for lawyers and financiers? Teh Job Creatas be slippin’…
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hijean831 commented on the blog post The Five States Most Likely to Legalize Marijuana Next
Interesting sidelight – when CA was considering MM, I lived in a very red part of the state. A coworker did an informal poll of her contacts, and she found older & younger folks more open to it than middle-aged.
Elders seemed to have the most thoughtful take, based on experience: they were more likely to have known someone who needed MM instead of expensive pharmaceuticals of dubious value and with demonstrated negative side effects.
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hijean831 commented on the blog post Forgetting the Poor While Arguing About the Rich
With a median household income of $61k and average of $83k, it is mind-boggling that anyone could consider $250k, at triple the high end, ‘middle class’, even in high-expense regions. BO should have started much lower. And maybe it is time for regional allowances, like the FHA mortgage limits.
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hijean831 commented on the diary post A Partial List Of Things That “Pro-Life” Conservatives Support by Eli.
The right’s definition of “life” as fetuses and corporations is as narrow and misguided as their definition of “civility” as the absence of swear words.
Yeah, but fuck ‘em. Who gives a shit?
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hijean831 commented on the blog post NBC News Correspondent Richard Engle Missing in Syria
Will keep him in my thoughts for a good outcome – he’s one of the best.
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hijean831 commented on the diary post Front-Runner for Minnesota GOP Chair Job: Marjorie Holsten, The Anti-Porn Prom Mom Featured on The Daily Show! by Phoenix Woman.
I was audio-picturing her with Michele Bachmann – aaieeeeee!
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hijean831 commented on the diary post Let’s Play With Some Numbers, Social Security Edition by dakine01.
The point of all this is that a mythical person collecting average Social Security benefits is in roughly the same position financially as the mythical person who works a mythical full time minimum wage job.
Let us not forget, median earnings are well below the average (never seen stats on average SS-subject wages), and that minimum [...]
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hijean831 commented on the diary post Worship of the Financial Sector Reaches New Heights by masaccio.
Hubby used to have a small retail business; he took crap Every Time he walked into the bank to make a deposit (to his BUSINESS ACCOUNT), and none was over several thousand dollars.
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hijean831 commented on the blog post Apple Will Move Production of Some iMacs to the US in 2013
Cook said he believes the U.S. education system is failing to produce enough people with the skills needed for modern manufacturing processes.
Really. Macs were originally produced in the Bay Area, albeit back when California was tops in public education. Is he really claiming Chinese peasants show up at Foxconn et al with modern manufacturing skills greater than those that could be found in the American labor pool?
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hijean831 commented on the blog post Feinstein Amendment Further Entrenches Power of Military Indefinite Detention
Whenever she gets a primary challenger, state party shoots them down.
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hijean831 commented on the blog post Rev. Irene Monroe: The Associated Press’s Discouraging the Word “Homophobia” is Discouraging
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ)
Since we’re discussing labels – may I ask what defines ‘queer’ as distinct from the rest of that series?
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