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For a closer look at ObamaCare.

Study it well, because you will need to familiarize yourself with this monster.

Pyzam put up a great image. “Don’t sound stupid, stop saying like.”

Something teenagers and youngsters who have yet to transcend kiddy talk should learn.

“Is it like,because I, like, say ‘like,’ like, so much?”

Click here at http://www.pyzam.com/funnypictures/details/7596 to read the rest of the ad.

Confessions of a slave owner…Do Wa Dippity.

As a child I used to have a bunch of hamsters.

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Then one sad day my fun with hamsters ended. Hamsters being rodents NEED to gnaw on things to keep their tooth growth in check and one day I put some pencils in the cages figuring the wood would be a great gnawing medium. However, I did not think it through and it turned out the the graphite core in the pencils killed all my hamsters. I was a little traumatized to come home from first grade to find I had inadvertently killed all my little buddies. Little furry bodies were strewn everywhere. Oh the horror!

After All these years and now I find out I was a slave owner. OH MY GOD! Then to make it even worse I had my own little concentration camps going. Instead of nice “showers” though I gave them graphite “chew toys”. I killed all my little slaves! Excuse me, suddenly I feel sick!

The only bright spot to this whole sick sad story is that unlike SO many slave owners at least I did not impregnate any of my slaves. Thank god for small favors!

Gosh, I guess I was one as well.    Bwhahahhahaha.

WTF?  I don’t get it because the last fifty years, federal law has required them to carry their green cards at all times.  Do they not have to do this any longer?  Shoot, I have to carry insurance cards, licenses, etc.  I say Arizona go for it, let the SCOTUS decide after the fact.  I foresee papers being filed now.

The judge also put on hold a part of the law that required immigrants to carry their papers at all times, and made it illegal for undocumented workers to solicit employment in public places.

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton put those controversial sections on hold until the courts resolve the issues.

Sections of S.B. 1070 that Bolton says are preempted by federal law:

Portion of Section 2 of S.B. 1070

A.R.S. § 11-1051(B): requiring that an officer make a reasonable attempt to determine the immigration status of a person stopped, detained or arrested if there is a reasonable suspicion that the person is unlawfully present in the United States, and requiring verification of the immigration status of any person arrested prior to releasing that person

Section 3 of S.B. 1070

A.R.S. § 13-1509: creating a crime for the failure to apply for or carry alien registration papers

Portion of Section 5 of S.B. 1070

A.R.S. § 13-2928(C): creating a crime for an unauthorized alien to solicit, apply for, or perform work

Section 6 of S.B. 1070

A.R.S. § 13-3883(A)(5): authorizing the warrantless arrest of a person where there is probable cause to believe the person has committed a public offense that makes the person removable from the United States.

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton presided over two federal hearings last Thursday, including a request from the U.S. Justice Department for a preliminary injunction blocking key sections of the law from taking effect.

via Federal judge rules on Arizona’s immigration law. 

Shout out to the feds…enforce the law so that the states don’t have to do your dirty work!

For two months, as Erika Johnson ached to bond with her newborn baby and her breast milk dried up, her daughter remained in the custody of Missouri’s Department of Social Services.

Johnson and her boyfriend Blake Sinnett, both students, had prepared well for the birth of their first child and say they did nothing wrong. But the 24-year-olds are both blind.

Johnson delivered Mikeala on May 21 at Centerpoint Medical Center in Independence, but when she had difficulty breast-feeding and the baby began to turn blue, a nurse called social services.

Why?  Having a visual is not the dey to this?  Practice is.

The case was dropped last week and Mikeala went home, but only after spending 57 days in foster care.

via Baby Sent to Foster Care for 57 Days Because Parents Are Blind. I think that nurse needs to be fired.

Unforgivable betrayal.  These rat bastards ensured there would be no transparency.   These so called “journalists” are now contrite because they got caught, and not because they understood that they had destroyed what they were trained to do which is reporting the facts.

Somewhere along the way, things have gone terribly wrong. Journalism has become a toy, an electronic plaything. I do not blame technology. The giant megaphone of technology has been coupled with a new, angrier, more destructive age. (Yes, you can find extremely angry, extremely partisan times in our past, but I always thought the goal was to progress over the centuries, not regress.)

Until recently, there was a semisecret, off-the-record organization called Journolist. It was a listserv, which is a bunch of people who sign up (if allowed) and then get the same e-mails and can reply to everybody on the list.

Journolist was founded by Ezra Klein in early 2007, when he was 22 and working for the liberal publication The American Prospect. Klein continued running it when he went to The Washington Post in 2009. The Post is a mainstream publication, but Journolist was limited to those “from nonpartisan to liberal, center to left.”

Thanks Chuck Todd, but feigning naivete isn’t going to cut it.

“This has kept me up nights. I try to be fair. It’s very depressing.”

I know how he feels. Klein appears to be a very honorable guy, but I think he created a Frankenstein monster without meaning to do so. I vowed I would never pine for the Good Old Days — I believe the Good Old Days are ahead of us — but let me end with the words of Stanley Walker. He was a famous newspaper editor in the 1920s and ’30s and wrote the following, which I have edited for space. (And if he were writing today, I am reasonably sure he would have included women.)

“What makes a good newspaperman? The answer is easy. He knows everything. He is aware not only of what goes on in the world today, but his brain is a repository of the accumulated wisdom of the ages.

“He hates lies and meanness and sham, but keeps his temper. He is loyal to his paper and to what he looks upon as his profession; whether it is a profession or merely a craft, he resents attempts to debase it.

via Journolist veers out of bounds.

Lack of  journalistic integrity is not easily forgotten.  Now, the pendulum will swing the other way? Who pays?  The public.  A perfect summation of the games that are played.

Journolist was a terrible idea from the start, not so much because it enabled the promotion of “lock-steppedness” and a progressive party line across media organizations (though Salam more or less concedes that it did), or because it fostered an “us vs. them” mentality (which it also obviously did). It was a bad idea, mainly because it took a process that could have been public, democratic and transparent and gratuitously made it private, stratified and opaque.