Soren wrote:

pacino wrote:

In response to larger-than-projected revenue losses, Brownback proposed slowing the rate of future tax reductions in January as well as boosting levies on cigarette and liquor. Those suggestions have been resisted by lawmakers, and the path to a budget resolution remains unclear.

Since tax cuts pay for themselves shouldn't he enact MORE tax cuts???

Just helping the move to privatized schools. See, the government can't afford to subsidize education any longer! My biggest political worry is the collapse of the DOE and the complete privatization of schools. With the decline of the middle class how many people will be able to afford education for their children?

traderdave wrote:I do not always agree with JH but when I do it is after he posts something like that last paragraph. I am not sure when the transition started but we have really become an insanely thin-skinned and intolerant society. Maybe I just was not following close enough in my youth but it seems like maybe the last 10 to 15 years? Maybe less? And I do not mean to imply that it is only liberals or only conservatives, either. Both sides have contributed to the Us vs. Them mentality that has become the United States. And the media certainly does not help matters at all; IMHO, it worsens the divide by pushing the narratives of their leaders. It is twisted but for all the worry and talk of Jihad in the Middle East, there appears to be a holy war going on right now in America.

SK790 wrote:

traderdave wrote:I do not always agree with JH but when I do it is after he posts something like that last paragraph. I am not sure when the transition started but we have really become an insanely thin-skinned and intolerant society. Maybe I just was not following close enough in my youth but it seems like maybe the last 10 to 15 years? Maybe less? And I do not mean to imply that it is only liberals or only conservatives, either. Both sides have contributed to the Us vs. Them mentality that has become the United States. And the media certainly does not help matters at all; IMHO, it worsens the divide by pushing the narratives of their leaders. It is twisted but for all the worry and talk of Jihad in the Middle East, there appears to be a holy war going on right now in America.

It stems from the fact that it's now acceptable in our society for the people who were being called racist and homophobic things to stand up and say that they don't like it and for the community to support them on a level that we've never seen before. Excuse me if I prefer that reality to the one where people could drop the N word and call gay people a plethora of homophobic slurs, not to mention, just flat out discriminate against those groups of people.

traderdave wrote:I do not always agree with JH but when I do it is after he posts something like that last paragraph. I am not sure when the transition started but we have really become an insanely thin-skinned and intolerant society. Maybe I just was not following close enough in my youth but it seems like maybe the last 10 to 15 years? Maybe less? And I do not mean to imply that it is only liberals or only conservatives, either. Both sides have contributed to the Us vs. Them mentality that has become the United States. And the media certainly does not help matters at all; IMHO, it worsens the divide by pushing the narratives of their leaders. It is twisted but for all the worry and talk of Jihad in the Middle East, there appears to be a holy war going on right now in America.

Andrew Stober, chief of staff for the mayor's Office of Transportation and Utilities, said a mobile parking-payment system is overdue. But he asked the PPA to provide a more detailed analysis of how it would affect the School District. Last year the district received $9.7 million from the Parking Authority, money drawn from tickets, meter fees and parking permits, among other areas.

"At a time when we are struggling to make sure the schools have the resources that we need, we need to make sure that we're not digging ourselves deeper in a hole," Stober said.

Fenerty called that concern "preposterous."

"We give tickets because we want people to comply with parking regulations," he said. "Tickets are not there as a punitive measure. They're getting people to obey the parking ordinances, and that's what we're doing."

pacino wrote:Mike Huckabee and Ben Carson are also running to up their speaking fees.

drsmooth wrote:

pacino wrote:Mike Huckabee and Ben Carson are also running to up their speaking fees.

Not sure I get Ben Carson at all. He's established that he's fundamentally incapable of thinking through policy implications - incapable even of grasping their rudiments - yet he's concluded a career as a stellar neurosurgeon. Wouldn't a stellar neurosurgeon have more than enough lucrative demands on his clinical expertise that he would have zero need to be anything other than an esteemed conservative opinion leader, as far as having/needing something productive to do with himself on the public stage? Aside from embarrassing himself further, what is the extent of the 'extra' gain he gets from playing Herman Cain's more boring sibling this election cycle?

TenuredVulture wrote:The thing about people who are smart is they think their experience and training and success in one area means that they can successfully transfer that ability to an entirely unrelated area. And there's at least one thing successful politicians and surgeons have in common--an overwhelming confidence, even arrogance.

pacino wrote:Maybe I'm misreading but she was blamed for HP suffering after the Compaq merger but was then replaced by Tom Perkins (recently outed as a crazy guy who thinks we have parallels with Nazi Germany) who also supported the merger? There appeared to be a lot more wrong with HP than just Fiorina, too.

She also appears to have an LLC that does nothing as well as a ficticious foundation. Not sure what that's about.

She'll get 1%.

Gimpy wrote:Sanders already has over 175,000 registered volunteers.