jerseyhoya wrote:

“The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists – the Taliban and Hamas this morning – in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize,” DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse said in a statement.

Wait, so the Taliban are terrorists again? Does this mean we can keep trying to kill them in Afghanistan?

jeff2sf wrote:I had assumed you lifted that from some other site. I gave you too much credit. So fine, don't be happy, but realize it is kind of odd for you to be denigrating him that much. I thought politics stopped at the water's edge or whatever. These colors don't run.

Houshphandzadeh wrote:No, it was funny.

drsmooth wrote:

swishnicholson wrote:GlennBeck with a remarkably passive-aggressive editorial on the swine flu vaccine. I think he's in support of taking it, but he sprinkles just enough anti-government venom to maintain his street cred and probably lead his followers to principled rejection.

Have you decided what you're going to do about the swine flu vaccine yet? Have you heard anybody yet talk about it that you trust? Will you take your chances with the swine flu or the vaccine? Will you take the vaccine and give it to your children? How much do you trust your government?

However, one physician with whom we spoke, Dr. Marc Siegel put it this way, "The decision whether to make the vaccine for the novel H1N1 flu mandatory for health care workers is not a moral or ethical problem. It is simply a question of health mathematics. In this case, the math is on the side of the vaccine."

By the way, Dr. Siegel will be appearing later on this program, but I was bothered by the "simple math" part of that. I mean, I'm not a number. These people were not numbers. Those who are being forced to take the injection, it's not numbers. If they don't take their injections, they lose their jobs. It may or may not be a moral or ethical problem, but it certainly raises questions of freedom and liberty. Were their rights trampled?

We must take this threat seriously. I think the government has done a responsible job so far. However, the arrogance of those in science and politics that we have seen lately should give us pause. We are no longer living in the Dick Van Dyke-Mary Tyler Moore 1950s kind of mentality where people were better living through pharmaceuticals.

It's time now to know the facts and make your own decisions.

the concept of probability is beyond Beck's stunted intellectual capacity; rather than admit he doesn't understand what the doctor is saying, and ask for more information on "the simple math", he equates the doctor's remark with arrogance ("he's smarter than me, so I'll assume he's trying to put one over on me, & by extension my listeners")

Houshphandzadeh wrote:No, it was funny.

jerseyhoya wrote:The Ledger endorses Daggett

traderdave wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:The Ledger endorses Daggett

I guess it remains to be seen what effect this has on the election but we probably all know where this thing is headed. In the meantime, I think I mentioned several pages back that I was going to attend an event in SJ featuring all three candidates; that event has been cancelled as the SJ Chamber of Commerce could not get a firm committment from the candidates to attend. I'm sure if the event were in Elizabeth or Lodi they would've hurried right over to speak with the electorate.

Under a two-year-old agreement with the federal department of homeland security, Arpaio and his deputies had been authorised to enforce federal immigration law by arresting suspected illegal immigrants in the field and by checking the immigration status of people arrested on other offences.

But after drawing thousands of complaints and a civil rights investigation from the justice department, Arpaio was this week stripped of his federal authority to make immigration arrests. County attorney Andrew Thomas, one of Arpaio's supporters, condemned the "setback in the fight against illegal immigration".

pacino wrote:a victory for sanity:

Under a two-year-old agreement with the federal department of homeland security, Arpaio and his deputies had been authorised to enforce federal immigration law by arresting suspected illegal immigrants in the field and by checking the immigration status of people arrested on other offences.

But after drawing thousands of complaints and a civil rights investigation from the justice department, Arpaio was this week stripped of his federal authority to make immigration arrests. County attorney Andrew Thomas, one of Arpaio's supporters, condemned the "setback in the fight against illegal immigration".

Bakestar wrote:

traderdave wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:The Ledger endorses Daggett

I guess it remains to be seen what effect this has on the election but we probably all know where this thing is headed. In the meantime, I think I mentioned several pages back that I was going to attend an event in SJ featuring all three candidates; that event has been cancelled as the SJ Chamber of Commerce could not get a firm committment from the candidates to attend. I'm sure if the event were in Elizabeth or Lodi they would've hurried right over to speak with the electorate.

"Candidates' Roundtable" at Satin Dolls?

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has described himself as the most persecuted person "in the entire history of the world".

Mr Berlusconi also said he was "the best prime minister we can find today".

In an impassioned statement, he then mistakenly told reporters he had spent millions of euros on "judges", before correcting himself to say "lawyers".

Mr Berlusconi was speaking two days after Italy's top court lifted a law granting him immunity while in office.

Correspondents say the Constitutional Court's ruling means the 73-year-old billionaire will probably have to face a number of trials for corruption and bribery within months.