lizrising: BTW, you inferred it. You are projecting that he implied what you are saying. And clearly Rush was being sarcastic and trying to be over the top. He certainly wasn't being serious.

I wish liberals would just be honest about this topic. Protecting the left when they do the same thing (as you did with Ed of MSNBC) while vilifying the right is hypocritical. Read this: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/04/rush-limbaugh-s-apology-liberal-men-need-to-follow-suit.html

She's a well known liberal and about the only liberal that is making any sense in this matter.

No one said one pill a month. You made that up. That's because you like to to obfuscate a problem with extraneous information. Your MO. BTW, there are once a month birth controls out there. But that's not what's even being discussed. Clearly it was sarcasm. You'd have to be pretty sexually active to be spending $1000 per year.

Seems you are still unclear about basic economics and clearly you are unaware of the availability of once a month contraception.

"Maybe the word "slut" I don't find really that bad."

So you're ok with women being called sluts. Good to know.

Like so many liberal thinkers, that is hypocritical.

(V): It IS only 4 dollars a month for the generic brand for "The Pill." Get a clue.

lizrising: I'm just saying its all wrong but Rush's offense doesn't rise to the level or pure evil.

Artful Dodger: By demanding videos he is insinuating that he owns Fluke's body because "he paid for" (he didn't actually) her birth control. Yes, that is evil and completely unacceptable.

"Now it seems the argument is that it's ok to call a woman a slut but not ok to ask for pictures."

Others may say that but not me. I think that is completely unacceptable as well and I don't support Ed Schultz or David Letterman or Bill Maher for name calling either.

Artful Dodger: Then don't make out it's only 4 dollars a month for contraception by the pill method then as you were implying.

ie like Limbaugh, stop exaggerating.

lizrising: He's just some old git, just trying to keep his ratings up.

lizrising: Not pure evil. What Hitler did to innocent people, cooking them in gas chambers, that's pure evil. What Rush said was just stupid. Comments like yours are why conservatives like myself don't take what you say seriously.

Now it seems the argument is that it's ok to call a woman a slut but not ok to ask for pictures.

It's simple Liz, it's all bad. You don't call a woman a bimbo or a slut or suggest she post videos. It's all bad. Letterman was wrong as was Ed as was Rush. Bill Mahr gets away with his foul name calling because as he said, he doesn't have sponsors. (his exact argument for why what he says is not wrong)

Slavery is pure evil. Molesting children is pure evil. Murder is pure evil. Raping is pure evil.

How you can seriously put Rush's comments in the same category is puzzling.

(V): Jules I was clear. It's cheap to buy generic pills. I never said one. Don't be a dolt.

(V): ""If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you post the videos online so we can all watch," he said on Thursday.""

Wow, he really said that? Unless he also says the same about a dude who got a vasectomy or uses Viagra paid for by insurance needing to post their videos as well, this is pure misogyny. The name calling by Ed Schultz and whoever else is also unacceptable, but what Limbaugh said is pure evil.

Artful Dodger: ..... Is there a new pill that women only take once a month? Otherwise... it's 1everyday, or 21 days of the month (depending on the pill and woman)

Which (using the 21 day scenario) is 21 x 4 x 12 ie 1008

"You need a basic economics"

Looks like you need basic knowledge on how contraception is used!!

"when he called Palin a slut."

Maybe the word "slut" I don't find really that bad. It was the likes of this...

""If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you post the videos online so we can all watch," he said on Thursday.""

....and his seemingly male need to call the woman a prostitute. Looks like he's threatened by the idea a woman can be in charge of her ability to have or not have children.

"BTW, I've never listened to Rush."

Never said you did.

"even though it was on that network that Ingraham was called a slut. "

Again, you seem to be concentrating on that word "slut".. as Jon said, that is pettyfogging.

Carbonite’s Bad Business Decision
Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a “slut.” He later apologized sincerely.

Ed Schultz called Laura Ingraham a “slut.” He never apologized for that, sincerely or otherwise.

Carbonite has severed its advertising relationship with Rush. It continues advertising on Schultz’s show.

Rush Limbaugh audience: About 15 to 20 million, on hundreds of radio stations at all times of the day.

Ed Schultz audience: Nearly too tiny to measure, on one cable channel and a few dozen (maybe) radio stations.

On the basis of business alone, Carbonite has made a terrible decision. I know I’ll never use their product now, and the same is probably true for a large number of Rush’s audience once they hear of the Democrat-owned business’ double standard. If there’s a neutral or conservative-owned online computer backup provider out there, they’ll starting getting some new business that Carbonite is destined to lose.

AD's prediction: Rush will not be hurt by any of this. But the left will and those businesses that left Rush will feel it in their bottom line.

Watch and see.
Unless, I guess, Carbonite suddenly picks up some new government contracts…

(V): Anyone that spends 1000 per year as Fluke said she does could only do that if they are having sex non stop. It's 4 bucks a month for the generic pills at the retail pharmacy and condoms are free via Planned Parenthood.

And an exceptional case isn't the standard we should hold up to raise everyone's insurance costs.

Fluke doesn't have to have sex. She wants to have it and wants others to pay for it. You need a basic economics less here Jules. If insurance companies are forced to offer the coverage she advocates, we will all pay higher premiums.

Jules, I looked in your previous posts and couldn't find where yo posted about Letterman when he called Palin a slut. Nor when an MSNBC host called Laura Ingraham a slut. And then Ann Colter, Michelle Malkin, and Michelle Bachman...all called foul names by those on the left. But like your missing posts on these incidents, there was no left wing outrage either.

BTW, I've never listened to Rush. Nice try but you missed the ball. And Rush will overcome this.

BTW, those "advertisers" that left Rush - interesting that they stayed with MSNBC even though it was on that network that Ingraham was called a slut.

And they say that the Left has no standards. Well, they in fact do have standards. -Double Standards-

Bwild: I suppose no votes for banning assault rifles then. Help more police live ya know. But heyyyy That's Texas for ya!!

This was in the Waco Tribune Herald, Waco , TX
> >
> > Put me in charge . . .
> >
> > Put me in charge of food stamps. I'd get rid of Lone Star cards; no cash for
> > Ding Dongs or Ho Ho's, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and beans,
> > blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If you want
> > steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.
> >
> > Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I'd do is to get women
> > Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we'll test
> > recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine and document all tattoos and
> > piercings. If you want to reproduce or use drugs, alcohol, smoke or get
> > tats and piercings, then get a job.
> >
> > Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in a military barracks?
> > You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your
> > "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be
> > inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, then get a job and your
> > own place.
> >
> > In addition, you will either present a check stub from a job each week or
> > you will report to a "government" job. It may be cleaning the roadways of
> > trash, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We
> > will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your blasting stereo
> > and speakers and put that money toward the “common good.”
> >
> > Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realize that all of
> > the above is voluntary. If you want our money, accept our rules.. Before
> > you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin their "self esteem,"
> > consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for
> > doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.
> >
> > If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least
> > attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system
> > rewards them for continuing to make bad choices.
> >
> > AND While you are on Gov’t subsistence, you no longer can VOTE! Yes that is
> > correct. For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. You will
> > voluntarily remove yourself from voting while you are receiving a Gov’t
> > welfare check. If you want to vote, then get a job.
> > Now, if you have the guts - PASS IT ON...

A University of Maine engineer and his research team have discovered a revolutionary new chemical process that can transform forest residues, along with other materials such as municipal solid waste, grasses, and construction wastes into hydrocarbon fuel oil products. (UMaine News Release here)

Shortening up the process from biomass to hydrocarbons has long been an idea of intense interest, and usually skipped over to the easier fermentation, pyrolysis and other schemes to get molecular change.

Maine is driven by circumstances, a lot of wood, some 6 million green tons of additional available biomass, according to a 2008 Maine Forest Service Assessment of Sustainable Biomass Availability. The new process suggests the biomass could yield 120 million gallons per year of gasoline, diesel, heating oil and kerosene mixtures while providing all the steam and power needs of the processing plants.

The whole of the U.S. transportation industry, which is dependent on hydrocarbon fuels because of their high energy density, could benefit from the revolutionary finding.

The new process was developed by M. Clayton Wheeler, a UMaine associate professor of chemical and biological engineering, and undergraduate students in his lab. Based on a mixed-carboxylate platform, the fuel has been determined to have a number of properties that make it better suited to serve as a drop-in fuel than many alternative fuels being widely researched and, bravely suggested, even those currently on the market.

In an early round of analysis, the UMaine oil product was found to have boiling points that encompass those of jet fuel, diesel, and gasoline. Further refinement to meet emissions standards would be needed in order to use the UMaine oil in vehicles that drive on public ways, but Wheeler believes the oil can be refined as simply as any other current oil at a standard refinery.

The process creating the oil is known as thermal deoxygenation (TDO) is relatively simple, Wheeler says, and will work on the cellulose found in wood or other substances that contain cellulose or carbohydrates and the process requires no catalysts or hydrogen, and is “a spin on chemistry used to make acetone back in the 1800s.”

Wheeler says, “The process is unique. No one else in the world is doing this.”

The TDO process starts with the conversion of cellulose to organic acids. The acids are combined with calcium hydroxide to form a calcium salt. That salt is heated to 450 degrees Celsius (900 degrees Fahrenheit) in a reactor, which constantly stirs the salt. This produces a reaction resulting in a dark amber-colored oil.

Here it gets very interesting -the reaction removes nearly all of the oxygen from the oil, which is a key step that distinguishes TDO from other biofuel processes. Oxygen is removed from as both carbon dioxide and water, and without the need for any outside source of hydrogen to remove the oxygen. Therefore, most of the energy in the original cellulose source is contained in the new oil.

The research paper, free with a registration, is titled “Energy Densification of Levulinic Acid by Thermal Deoxygenation,” at Green Chemistry.

Wheeler explains, “Biomass has a lot of oxygen in it. All of that oxygen is dead weight and doesn’t provide any energy when you go to use that as a fuel. If you’re going to make a hydrocarbon fuel, one of the things you have to do is remove oxygen from biomass. You can do it by using hydrogen, which is expensive and also decreases the energy efficiency of your process. So if there’s a way to remove the oxygen from the biomass chemically, then you’ve densified it significantly. Our oil has less than 1 percent oxygenates. No one else has done anything like this. ”

Wheeler’s lab team recently used unpurified, mixed carboxylates, which were produced from grocery store waste such as banana peels, cardboard boxes and shelving to successfully make a batch of the fuel. The use of municipal solid waste illustrates another important point about the potential of the UMaine fuel – it does not require an uncontaminated cellulose source, which makes the TDO process and resulting oil even more attractive. Many other pathways to hydrocarbons require purified feedstocks or intermediates, which adds more complexity and cost to their processes.

“You don’t need pure wood or pure cellulose,” says Wheeler. “Anytime you can use something without having to separate it, your costs go down.”

http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Revolutionary-New-Process-Turns-Biomass-Waste-Into-Fuel-Oil.html

Artful Dodger: Really... anyone having the pill is having sex 5 times a day...

What about the case Miss Fluke stated?

"Her testimony included the case of a fellow student who needed birth control to control ovarian cysts.

Georgetown, a Catholic university with a prestigious law school, does not cover birth control to prevent pregnancy in its student health plan, and the student, who is gay, could not convince the insurance company she was ill."

"She is having so much sex she needs government help paying for it "

No she wants her health plan (from a religiously affiliated institution) to cover it.

"The real story here is"

That Limbaugh is now apologising as his advertisers are abandoning him.

Yeah, Sandy gets a call from the prez when a Right wing talk show host calls her a slut. Good for the prez. Just like when he called Sarah Palin when the left was calling her a slut. Oh wait, he didn't call her when that happened.

Well, at least when an MSNBC host called a conservative raido talk show host a slut, Obama called her. Oh wait, Obama didn't call her either.

hmmmm, guess it's not just those on the right. Seems like the left does it all the time. Just check into Twitter.


Sandra is gonna be a lawyer. She is having so much sex she needs government help paying for it (even though she can get contraception's free - that's right folks: FREE). By her own testimony, she spends about 1000$$ a year on contraceptives.. That mathematically means she's having sex at least 5 times a day.

The real story here is that as a lawyer to be, she's learning to screw a lot of people even before she officially becomes a lawyer.

"Limbaugh slut slur student Sandra Fluke gets Obama call

US President Barack Obama has called to offer support to a US law student attacked by radio host Rush Limbaugh for her views on contraception.

Mr Obama told Sandra Fluke he was disappointed she had been the subject of "unfortunate attacks", White House spokesman Jay Carney said. Limbaugh called Ms Fluke a "slut" and suggested her testimony to US lawmakers made her "a prostitute".

After criticism of his remarks, Limbaugh did not back down.

"If we are going to pay for your contraceptives, and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. We want you post the videos online so we can all watch," he said on Thursday."

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> And Andrew Breitbart calls the OWS protesters rapists.

Is this the only the far right in America can fight?

"The birth certificate of US President Barack Obama could be a forgery, a controversial Arizona sheriff claims.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County - who styles himself as America's toughest - unveiled the results of a probe into the origins of the document. His investigators found "probable cause" the certificate may have been made by "forgery and fraud", he said.

Mr Arpaio, known for his tough stance on immigration, is being investigated over allegations of racial profiling. The US justice department alleges that his office routinely discriminated against Latinos.

He also faces a federal grand jury investigation into the activities of his anti-corruption unit, and a forthcoming re-election bid in Maricopa County....

.....Critics have suggested that Mr Arpaio launched his probe into Mr Obama's birth certificate to distract attention from his legal wrangles, as well as to aid his upcoming re-election bid.

But the sheriff denied those accusations, telling reporters at his news conference on Thursday: "I'm not going after Obama. I'm just doing my job.""


Really!!

Published February 29, 2012
FoxNews.com

James Murdoch has stepped down as executive chairman of News International to focus on News Corp.'s expanding international television businesses, News Corp. announced Wednesday.

James Murdoch and his role at News International have come under scrutiny amid Britain's expanding phone-hacking scandal at Murdoch-owned titles.

In a statement, James, 39, thanked the dedication of his colleagues who he said worked "tirelessly to inform the public." He also praised the company's latest British newspaper, The Sun on Sunday, which had its first edition last weekend.

"With the successful launch of The Sun on Sunday and new business practices in place across all titles, News International is now in a strong position to build on its successes in the future," he said in a statement.

Tom Mockridge, chief executive of News International, will continue in his post and will report to News Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey, the company said in a statement.

Newscore and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

Michael Wolff
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 February 2012 17.39 GMT

"What's done is done – even if they don't yet acknowledge that it is 100% done.

James Murdoch, hopelessly tarred by the phone-hacking scandal, exits his position as chairman of News International, the tainted News Corp subsidiary in the UK, and takes up, in his father's words, "a variety of essential corporate leadership mandates, with particular focus on important pay-TV businesses and broader international operations."

Let us first dispense with that fig leaf: James Murdoch does not have a role at News Corp. He is the shadow man. Nobody talks to him – not even, at least not meaningfully, his father. (They once spoke two or three times a day, managing the affairs of their world.) His siblings shun or pity him. He has not existed as a force, and hardly as presence, since the meltdown of the News of the World last summer.

And, to say the least, there is no possibility that he will inherit the top job.

The reality is stark: everybody in the company blames James for the terrible things that have happened in London. They blame his father for falling under James's sway – but blame James more for swaying him.

In a way, it's even starker than that: since he left the top job at BSkyB at his father's behest and took over News Corp's operations in Europe and Asia, James has become the most disliked man in the company. This is partly because, for all the obvious reasons, Murdoch's entitled children would breed a predictable resentment. But additionally, it is because James is an extraordinarily cold, abrasive know-it-all.

"Who would have thought anybody could make Lachlan look good," said one of Murdoch's close executives, referring to the contrast between James and his brother Lachlan, who once was the heir apparent – and, in his moment, another headquarters albatross. But starker still, within News Corp, there is a structural analysis of why everything in London went so wrong – with James as the faulty linchpin.

In his father's determination to elevate James, James Murdoch found himself with vastly more power than he should have had. He used it, as power-mad people are wont to do, to grab more power. He did this by pressuring his father to push out all the key executives – chief operating officer Peter Chernin, general counsel Lon Jacobs, communications chief and Rupert-right hand Gary Ginsberg – who, for so long, had so adroitly steered Rupert and the company. And they had had a tight hold on his ear – for Murdoch often tends to listen most to the last person he has spoken to.

Thus, in the end, with everybody else gone, James was calling most of the shots. His was the strategic mind dealing with the meltdown in London. Or worse: his was the strategic mind that allowed Rebekah Brooks, the former Sun editor who became the CEO of News International, to be the strategic mind.

And then, the Taylor payment: one News Corp view is that he authorised the vast settlement payment to Gordon Taylor, chief executive of the Professional Footballers Association, whose voicemail the News of the World had hacked – not so much because he was afraid of what Taylor might say, but because he thought any potential scandal might provide an excuse for American executives to take a greater oversight role of what was now his domain.

James Murdoch was not trying to cover up the company's crimes – and it never quite made sense why he would. Rather, he was playing internal politics.

Hence the smoking gun: his legal approach during his testimony before the British parliament this summer was the tried-and-true theory of "plausible deniability". If he carefully couched his testimony, then, ultimately, there would just no way of truly knowing what he knew.

Except there was. In essence, the bureaucracy, in the form of Tom Crone, the company lawyer, and Colin Myler, the News of the World editor, whom James had implicitly blamed, rebelled – saying they had told him all. And they had an email to prove it. James's only defence was that he had not read it all. Plausible deniability gone.

He should, of course, step down and out. Not be a distraction, until name is cleared, etc. He continues as an executive now because his father has great difficulties saying the obvious. And because James himself has determined that his personal interests are best served by staying on the inside and being able to pick up what scuttlebutt he can.

The story, however, is not completely over. He will not be the chief executive of News Corp, or much of anything else, but even from jail, if that is where he finds himself, he will be one of four siblings who each control 25% of their birthright company.

Artful Dodger: Paedophile style acts are ok, but rape is not??

18 rape stories means what? Sorry but I don't get it. Are you trying to associate rape with being a protester?

Artful Dodger: Good.

Charlotte Church and her family agreed to a £600,000 settlement today. The NI group started hacking her phone when she turned 16. 33 stories published were through her and her families phones being hacked. They even went after her mother.

"At her lowest moment, the NoW issued her with an ultimatum and coerced her into giving them an in-depth interview about her self-harming and attempted suicide. She felt she had no choice but to give the interview and was deeply traumatised by the publication of the story in the News of the World. "The NoW targeted Charlotte and her voicemail messages repeatedly, and in doing so unlawfully obtained her private medical information and details of her personal relationships with her family and friends. Even her first teenage boyfriend. They then ran stories about Charlotte using this information.

Their solicitors words.

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry today...

""Emails indicate that payments to sources were openly referred to at the Sun," DAC Akers said.

In her written statement, DAC Akers said there was recognition that this behaviour was illegal, with reference made to staff "risking losing their pensions or job", to the need for "care" and to the need for "cash payments"".

=================
"Some OWS protesters raped"

One rapist turned out to be a convicted sex offender. As to others.. you'll always get some who will take advantage of such groupings. It doesn't mean they became OWS protesters and that made them start raping does it.

Artful Dodger: Are you then upset by the phone hacking Dan?

As to Murdoch.. he's been interfering with British politics for years and many people in the UK have seen that. The use of his papers and media to support his 'friends' is not new news. Maybe to you though.

As to the kids being branded as racist... the Daily mail as you posted stated "effectively classed, rather than actually classed. Can you prove (as the onus is on you) they were, or are you just going to go by the Daily Mails word?


"The rapes were covered up. And now there are many in the OWS movement (supporters and participants) that are denying that rapes occurred even though there are police records to show differently."

Right.. from what I've read this is the case...

""These protests have a history of welcoming everyone and just assuming they're on your side," said David Meyer, a professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine, who studies protest movements.

The recent reports of assaults have created a problem the "Occupy" movement is being challenged to address head-on.

"We always encourage victims to go through the proper channels and contact police," said Brendan Burke, 41, who helps run the security team in Zuccotti Park.

But that's not always the case. Burke admitted there have been times when members of the community have taken it upon themselves to chase off men who exposed themselves in the park.

"If there is a consensus that someone is bothering another person, the community will take care of it," he said. "Still, we always notify victims to contact police.""

Now.. It sounds like you are trying to say the protesters are rapists. I could then say as it has happened that Christians and Conservatives are rapists, as a number have been found to be rapists.

But that is not the case in either matter.

Artful Dodger: have you ever thought it could have something to do with the fact that Murdoch was born an Australian??

Artful Dodger:

Artful Dodger: So it's ok for this guy and his organisation to hack into the phone of a dead girl as well as hundreds of others and that is ok. To bribe police. to blackmail MP's and to do other matters that are against UK law.

But you then like Bill (your mentor) say I'm applauding bullying by putting words into my mouth. Golly.. I thought you hated that!!

Twisted.. just like this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU-XN5kuoKE&feature=related

... NOT to be confused with the "Sunday Sun" .. that paper has been in existence for about 100 years.

Let us all celebrate.. the Sun on Sunday has been launched.

no more will people suffer a shortage of loo paper on Sunday. Beats the price of a two roll of Andrex by 60p!!

I wonder how many staff from NOTW who were sacrificed by Murdoch to save face will now work for this new (*cough*) paper.

Bernice:

I would sincerely hope there would be NO swear words used on here....I have been picked up on every one I have used, but then thats me....I only have to look sideways and get chatted.

Jon Stewart Destroys Bill O'Reilly Over Common

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gonNsAHMAFM&feature=related

Ok.. I need an update. What swear words can we use on this board??

Ann Coulter.
Hannity & Colmes, June 20, 2001
"God gave us the earth. We have dominion over the plants, the animals, the trees. God said, 'Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It's yours."

Sept. 12, 2001
"We should invade their [Muslim] countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."

Tell me she's really a Satanist.. it makes more sense!!

Bernice: UM.......I think I know.. ;)

we are having leadership problems in Australia and as usual the jokes come out....I hope this appreciated and not upsets anyone.........

A platoon of soldiers was marching north of Fallujah when they came upon an Iraqi terrorist, badly injured and unconscious.

On the opposite side of the road was an Australian soldier in a similar but less serious state.

The soldier was conscious and alert and as first aid was given to both men, the Platoon Leader asked the injured Australian what had happened.

The soldier reported, 'I was heavily armed and moving north along the highway here, and coming south was a heavily armed insurgent.'

We saw each other and both took cover in the ditches along the road.

I yelled to him that Saddam Hussein was a miserable, lowlife scum bag who got what he deserved.

He yelled back that Kevin Rudd is a bureaucratic, good-for-nothing, left wing labor meanie who knows nothing at all about running the country.'

'So I said that Osama Bin Ladin dresses and acts like a frigid, mean-spirited lesbian!'

He retaliated by yelling, 'Oh yeah? Well, so does Julia Gillard!'

'And, there we were, in the middle of the road, laughing, shaking hands, when a truck hit us.'

Artful Dodger: ROFL.....like them.....

can you tell me who said....

I voted for the Republicans because the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth?

“When your family or friends cannot explain why they voted democrat, give them this list and they can pick a reason from this “TOP 12″.

12. I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t.

11. I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

10. I voted Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

9. I voted Democrat because I’m way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.

8. I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius.

7. I voted Democrat because I’m not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.

6. I voted Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits, and we should take away the social security from those who paid into it.

5. I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrats see fit.

4. I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

3. I voted Democrat because I think that it’s better to pay billions to people who hate us for their oil, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher or fish.

2. I voted Democrat because while we live in the greatest, most wonderful country in the world, I was promised “HOPE AND CHANGE”.

And, finally, the No. 1 reason to vote Democrat:

1. I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my (two words: R..C...), it’s unlikely that I’ll ever have another point of view.”

fukuhara: I recently saw a docudrama on the Nanjing Massacre. Very brutal stuff. Sad that some deny it and even sadder still that some young people have never heard of it.

Vikings: No problem. I certainly wasn't trying to bait anyone....but was trying to drive the point home. And my barbs were aimed at the idiots that make such policies. And yes, the US has it's set of knuckle heads at the top making nutty decisions as well. Oddly enough, they all have the first name of Peter. Last name Principle. Go figure ;)

Bernice: lol @ sense of humor! ;)

thank god for that.......

OK, so political correctness has run amuck in both the UK and the US. no need to make further post on the subject. any further post on the subject may be taken as baiting and be removed, please move on to another topic,

Security at a U.S. school has been stepped up after a racist video rant by two of its white female students went viral.

Santaluces High School, in Lantana, Florida, is on high alert for possible retaliation attacks after the two girls poked fun at the way black pupils 'talk' and wear their weave hair extensions.

It comes hot on the heels of similar footage posted by two teenagers from nearby Gainesville last week who received death threats after also making disparaging comments against black students.

In this latest disturbing video, the girls start by saying white students 'turn black' as soon as they enter the school, claiming you 'catch the disease'.

At one point they add: 'Guys, if you're watching this video now, and you have a weave, and you're black, please be offended - because we're making fun of you. It ends with one of the girls saying: 'Don't post this on Facebook because all our friends are black.' They chuckle, flash peace signs and say 'peace and love'.

A district education spokesman said the school, which is 27 per cent white, 35 per cent black and 33 per cent Hispanic, was aware of the video.

A statement read: "Appropriate action will be taken according to district policy. Racist comments are unacceptable and have no place in our school district." And The Palm Beach Post newspaper said the school was stepping up its security after the girls' video went viral.

School Police Chief Jim Kelly added that, because social media is so new, it did not have a policy in place to deal with such incident. But, he said, he would not be looking into it to develop one.

The video is the second in a week to outrage America.

Last week two teenage girls were forced to drop out of their high school in Gainesville, when they began getting death threats after their 15-minute racist rant about 'black people'. The girls cheerily complained about the African-American students in their classes and dragged out a litany traditional racist stereotypes.


Will the girls parents be paying for the extra security costs?