Right to Wife - Why does Judge Alito treat women like girls? because he's just another right-wing jackass who isn't secure enough in his manhood to allow women to be human beings... why else would Monkeyman have picked him? I cannot understand why any woman would want to be Republican, except that they're too lazy to think for themselves. If you want to stay home and be a Mommy, that's fine, but don't impose it on the rest of us that don't want to get our bitch asses into the kitchen and make pie.
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Getting Out Of Our Pickle Another good Molly Ivins column
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PEZ MP3 Player what'll they think of next?
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Was the feminist movement some sort of cruel hoax? By Kathleen Parker ... another right-winger blames women for single-parent homes...
And then, when whatshisname inevitably lapsed into guy-ness, women wanted him to disappear. If children were involved, women got custody and men got an invoice. The eradication of men and fathers from children's lives has been feminism's most despicable accomplishment. Half of all children will sleep tonight in a home where their father does not live.
What a load of bullshit. My parents got divorced because my dad left my mom for someone else. Blaming women for men abandoning their parental duties is bullsh*t. Coming from a woman, it's even more distasteful.
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Stupid monkey president is so obssessed with the "War on Terra" (which, by the way, we are apparently losing... who's suprised there?) Meanwhile, our country goes to hell in a handbasket. I'm more scared of tweakers than terrorists --Published Monday October 31, 2005
Congress hears alarm in Midlands over meth
BY LORI NITSCHKE
WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
WASHINGTON - Nebraska Trooper Shane Flynn recalls his surprise when a speaker at a 1990s drug conference predicted that the crack cocaine devastation seen in Omaha and Lincoln would seem tame if methamphetamine abuse continued to grow.
"I could not have imagined anything worse," Flynn said of crack.
Since then, Flynn and his colleagues have seen "crank," as meth is known, take over as the state's No. 1 drug problem. They have seen businessmen, mothers of young children and homeless people become addicted.
Troopers have shut down hundreds of home labs where meth had been produced from common household and farm products, including cold pills, antifreeze and anhydrous ammonia.
And they have seen hundreds of children, often neglected or abused, taken from drug-addicted parents and put in foster care or left with relatives.
They're not alone. The western two-thirds of the country has seen explosive growth in the use and distribution of methamphetamine and an increasing infiltration of Mexican drug cartels into the trafficking system.
States like Nebraska and Iowa are beginning to see the number of seized labs level off, but Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia are witnessing explosive growth.
Flynn and law enforcement officials across the country are asking the federal government to step in.
"I don't believe the states in and of themselves can deal with this alone," Flynn said when he was in Washington recently to brief Congress on the experience of law enforcement in fighting meth.
Increasingly, members of Congress agree with Flynn, and dozens have introduced bills to address it.
Lobbyists and Midlands congressmen involved in the anti-meth effort are optimistic that Congress will pass a measure this fall addressing at least some of the problems.
A comprehensive effort could be hampered by conflicting opinions on two issues: How heavy should prison terms be for those trafficking in small amounts of the drug? And how much inconvenience should normal buyers of cold and allergy medications have to endure to make sure meth cooks don't get their ingredients?
Rep. Tom Osborne, R-Neb., said Congress has to pass tough measures.
"If we just kind of give it a wink and a nod, we're really inviting disaster," he said. "Meth is the most powerful, most addictive drug that we've run across."
The bill that appears most likely to move through Congress this year is intended to keep ingredients out of the hands of meth cooks.
The Senate has passed a measure that would require retailers to place cold and allergy medications containing pseudoephedrine, a common meth ingredient, behind pharmacy counters and limit each purchaser to 7.5 grams, or about 250 pills, per month.
The bill mimics laws in Iowa and Oklahoma that place strong restrictions on the medications. It would replace less stringent state laws, including Nebraska's, which limits purchases to 1.4 grams of pseudoephedrine per 24-hour period. Stronger state laws could stand.
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, has introduced the Meth Lab Eradication Act, which would set national standards as strict as those in Iowa.
Placing medications behind store checkout counters is backed by some drug-control advocates because, they say, drug addicts often steal the pills from shelves.
There is disagreement in Congress about whether the pills should be stored on a regular store counter, near the cigarettes at a drug store for instance, or in the pharmacy.
The latter proposal is controversial even among strong advocates of anti-meth laws because they feel it makes it too hard for consumers to purchase cold products when pharmacy windows are closed.
Other bills address trafficking by drug gangs, creating environmental standards for cleaning up toxic waste left by labs and boosting research for treatment.
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can't win the "War on Drugs" for the same reason we can't win the "War on Terror" -- they don't want to look into WHY people become drug addicts, they just assume they are bad, immoral people and lock them up. Republicans don't want to address the social and economic problems that lead to drug use and crime. Just like they don't want to examine what it is that makes terrorists hate us so much... for every one we kill, there's 20 more to take their place... but it couldn't possibly be anything we've done wrong...
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Why I despise RepublicansOct 28, 8:22 PM EDT
House panel OKs school lunch funding cut
By LIBBY QUAID Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) -- The House Agriculture Committee approved budget cuts Friday that would take food stamps away from an estimated 300,000 people and could cut off school lunches and breakfasts for 40,000 children.
The action came as the government reported that the number of people who are hungry because they can't afford to buy enough food rose to 38.2 million in 2004, an increase of 7 million in five years. The number represents nearly 12 percent of U.S. households."If there are cuts to be made, why should we make them on food stamps?" said Rep. David Scott, D-Ga. "This is the meanest cut of all."
The cuts, approved by the Republican-controlled committee on a party-line vote, are part of an effort by the House GOP to curb federal spending by $50 billion. The food and agriculture cuts would reduce spending by $3.7 billion, including $844 million on nutrition, $760 million on conservation and $212 million on payments to farmers."The fact is, our country is going broke," said Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio. "We're spending money we don't have and passing it onto our kids, and at some point, somebody's got to say, `Enough's enough.'"
The $574 million reduction in food stamp spending would affect families who receive food stamps because they receive other non-cash government assistance. The change is estimated to shut up to 300,000 people out of the program.
The restriction also could take free meals away from an estimated 40,000 school children, because children in many states are automatically eligible for school meals when they get food stamps, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
The White House proposed the restriction earlier this year.The bill would also raise the waiting period for food stamps for legal immigrants from five to seven years.
Senate GOP leaders are seeking to curb spending by $39 billion, and have been more reluctant to cut government benefit programs. The Senate Agriculture Committee spared food stamps in approving a similar budget bill last week and voted for greater reductions in farm payments and conservation.
The House committee voted to shave $212 million from direct payments to farmers, a 1 percent reduction over the next four years. Cuts to commodity programs totaled $1 billion and include repeal of a federal cotton subsidy to comply with a World Trade Organization ruling against the program.
We've got billions of dollars to throw down a foreign rathole, yet we can let our own people starve. Notice the number of people who can't afford food has gone up drastically in the last five years... right about the time Monkeyman got elected. Everything is going up -- food, gas, heating costs... that's what happens when you let Republicans run your country.......
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