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The problem with Hillary-bots is that they continue to find TINY flaws in Obama and his group while ignoring MAJOR ETHICAL VIOLATIONS in Hillary and her little group.
"In addition, Mr. Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod, has worked as a consultant to Exelon. A spokeswoman for Exelon said Mr. Axelrod’s company had helped an Exelon subsidiary, Commonwealth Edison, with communications strategy periodically since 2002, but had no involvement in the leak controversy or other nuclear issues."
I'm SHOCKED!! SHOCKED!!
Of course, I was MUCH MORE SHOCKED when I found out that Mark Penn's group is representing Blackwater.
We have Hillary's campaign director representing a mass murderer, and you are concerned about a 3rd rate minor connection.
Clean your own house. Hillary's campaign is dirty, and her supporters fight dirty.
I have had it up to here with NOW and it's feminazi strategy to kill Obama and help Hillary. I will NEVER support them on ANYTHING again. They are total jerks and totally disloyal assholes.
I have seen more and more that the Hillary-bots and Hillary-nazis are willing to do ANYTHING to ANYONE to advance Hillary. I just do not support that shit, and I'm calling them on that crap.
If you belong to NOW, quit. Send them an email. Tell them to stop the NOW-boating.
I am incensed.
By his own admission, he is incompetent.
Get rid of this idiot, and get in someone who can do his job.
The law is a bad law. If it was a Democratic law, it would also be bad.
1) It is only punitive. There is no credits for doing well, only demerits for doing poorly.
2) Schools that are diverse are more strongly hit.
3) Standards differ from state to state. Illinois has strict standards, Texas has crappy loose standards.
4) When a school fails to show AYP, it has more and more strict punishments. After 3 years, school districts must pay PRIVATE FIRMS TO TUTOR STUDENTS.
PRIVATE FIRMS TO TUTOR STUDENTS
The law sucks, and I am amazed at how you, a reasonable person, has not showed any critical faculties about this law.
Ask a teacher. None, not one, likes the law.
ANYONE who would condone an asshole like this little shit is an idiot.
I hope that anyone who does condone it ends up with THEIR telephone number on Facebook, so that total idiots call THEM at 4 AM.
There is a private zone. It is called the home. You don't call there unless its an EMERGENCY, not because you are a shit little high school moron.
What's next is contraception. The right wing nut wack extremist anti-choice morality fascists oppose contraception as much as abortion. The two are considered to be of a piece. Both get in the way of "gawd's will" whatever that is.
If you are ambivalent on choice, better get over that. Retaining choice as an option for women means retaining contraception.
Her antiquated ideas of what is difficult, and who is facing adversity, are just so-ooo-ooo 60s. I am a child of the 60-70s too, and am firmly convinced that things have improved since then. Women have some limits, but not like in the 60s.
To most actual contemporary persons, Steinem's whining, puking, puling rant is simply embarrassing.
It is stupid. It is dishonest.
Most importantly, it is the most unamerican tax I have ever heard of. Since the onset of taxes, the compact in America has always been that the rich pay more. They get more from this society, and they should pay more, much more than now.
I just bet that the Chinese thieves in this situation came in on H-1Bs. The Chinese have never been much good at innovation, but are great at simple thievery.
Hire an H-1B - you get a cheap employee who spends his/her Saturdays xeroxing technical specs for later transfer back to China.
"As a parent, I never liked "Zooey 101" which is set in an unrealistic prep school atmosphere with notably missing authority figures. The recent ad showing Jamie Lynn mud-wrestling made my rethink letting my daughter watch at all."
I am a parent. I watch some of those shows (the only one my kids ever watched was Smallville). They are very concerning. Autonomy (which is what the shows provide) is fine and good, but living in a world where you need to work with authority figures is much more important.
"None of this is my business, even though these people are "famous." And neither Brady nor Spears deserves the kind of vitriol that Spears is receiving now. It truly does turn my stomach how people are so hateful. Aside from being mean and smug, it's also really ghoulish. Do we really need play-by-play commentary on another celebrity train wreck?"
Her job is being a role model. That's what they pay her for. She is probably making 1 Million/year to look pure and good. So, now she is not pure and good. She is normal.
She is also a stupid stupid kid.
Most importantly, her mother should be taken to the woodshed and paddled. What kind of parenting is she doing, allowing her 16 year old daughter to go on dates with a 19 year old? Not just negligent, incredibly stupid.
That's girl under age, boyfriend over age.
It may not be statutory rape, but it is scummy. 19 is much more sophisticated than 16. It's enough of a difference so that the boyfriend would be putting on inappropriate pressure.
What a little scumbag this boy is. I have no respect for him. In the first place, any 19 year old who needs to have a 16 year old girlfriend is a poor excuse of a human being.