So, basically, if you're overly concerned about the treatment of animals, it could be a strong indication that you hate America.

I am not voting because of a dog story, even though I own 4 and would slice the person who caused them any harm.

I am not voting a write it as some protest.

We are over a year out, so the final decision will be then.  But unless Obama raises taxes and keeps his hands off SS, it's looking like I will stay home.  Had I wanted the current set of policies, I could have voted for Reagan(had they made the voting age 10).

This will be the second time, the fist was '92 and that was because when I got out of the Navy, the election was so close that it wasn't possible.

This business sucks, all I want is a sliver of someone respectable to support, I even volunteered in '08.  Phone duty, but it felt good, this time I wouldn't be any help if someone were to ask me 'Why ?'.

Which is precisely why, at this point, I don't think I will vote.  

Or actually, Joe Turnham. He's a southern liberal, fought the good fight for a long time, got NO support when running for congress from the DCCC.

He's worth a shout out.

And what are we to make of this masochistic, thank-you-sir-may-I-have-another? element in the Tea Party that wants to deregulate further, abolish the minimum wage and do away with unions altogether?

When given a mild anti-anxiety drug ... subjects still said they viewed an 80-20 split as unjust, but their willingness to reject it outright dropped in half.

And how many people are on anti-anxiety/depression meds these days?  Makes it harder to find one's outrage if one is well medicated.

Senior prank went bad in Durango, CO this year.  Seniors scattered 30 bales of hay throughout the school.  Trouble with hay, as opposed to straw, is that's it's partially digested by mold.

School had to be shut for four days and the cleanup cost $200K.

LINK: 1996 Seattle Bomb Scare

Massive overreaction doesn't require a racial component.  

Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts focused on Morton's case recently in his nationally syndicated column, suggesting that Morton's case was another example of unfair treatment for a black youth without a wealthy family.

Morton's father brushed off that suggestion when Pitts asked him about it, and Morton's mother declined to discuss that point with The Star.

Morton's attorney, Robert Turner, also downplayed race, suggesting that the size of the small blue-collar city an hour southeast of Indianapolis played a role.

Bill Goins, 58, a member of a prominent black family who has led the local NAACP chapter for 20 years, disagreed that race seemed to be a factor. And Williams pointed out that early on that day, school administrators who were frantically reviewing security video couldn't distinguish the suspect's race.

Morton is being represented by Indianapolis attorney Robert Turner, a former city public safety director.

Turner, who is black, also downplayed race. He suggested another factor: the fact that it happened in a small town.

Morton was arrested and faces up to eight years in prison. The newspaper reports that it's unlikely he'll receive a full sentence, and the prosecutor has suggested he won't seek prison time.

"But use the school disciplinary process. Don't try to label the kid a felon for the rest of his life."

What I support is putting all science on the table and then letting students decide.

Several problems, if only the science is on the table, then Intelligent Design isn't.

The other issue is letting kids decide curriculum.  Great if your an eighth grader, Underwater basket Weaving rocks.  But here in reality, we make kids take subjects they dislike because like vegetables, they are good for them.

Better educated kids = A better educated country = A competitive future labor force = A stronger and more robust US economy.

Interesting that Mitt Romney's position (as of last campaign) on evolution is that he agrees with Darwin on human evolution, but believes God created the Universe in the first place.

I think he'll be fine with GOP voters with that position, and I don't see evolution/ID as the hot-button issue it was a few years ago.  

And try Juarez, you should be able to get them three for twenty down there.  But maybe it's changed in Mexico, too.  There's always Canada online.  

And xnay on that repulsive, chicks need a keg to dig me stuff.  Trust me, as the king of self-hatred, as a man with an inferiority complex so vast it has its own BART station, it does not help with the blood flow. In any way.

Hey, hey, hey.

It is possible that any deal would involve a misdemeanor plea in which he would serve no jail time and would be allowed to return to France. But it remains unclear if prosecutors have ruled out seeking a felony plea.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn's defense team gave indications last week that he would be unwilling to plead guilty to any crime unless prosecutors presented strong evidence. Barring that, the Manhattan district attorney's office would have to dismiss the charges altogether or go to trial.

wouldn't it benefit DSK to have the case go to trial, now that the accuser's credibility has been undermined?

& doesn't the DA know that?

so if the case is likely to be dismissed in the absence of compelling new evidence, why should DSK plead guilty to anything?

which won't happen, because there will be no trial, no plea, no case

Pretty sure you got that from Star Jones on the Today show, because she was saying the exact same thing, but someone else clarified that it had to be done today by the judge.

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 : group solidarity in sentiment and belief

many believed that change meant "changing in the progressive way across the board".  

He said a lot of things - about transparency, about the Bush/Cheney policies, about the value of whistleblowers, about health care - the list goes on - that he not only has not addressed as he said he would, but in large part as they had been done in the past by Republican presidents - only to a higher degree of terrible, and in so doing, has reinforced and entrenched and legitimized them as acceptable.  Which they most certainly are not.

Not to mention all the WORM (What Obama REALLY means) arguments we got from his supporters.

But I guess that's the advantage of making vague and/or conflicting promises out of both sides of his mouth.  Someone can always say "He's doing what he said he'd do", and they'd be right ...