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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: FlippyDoo on June 15, 2014, 08:01:51 AM
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I awoke this fine Father’s Day morning (Happy Father’s Day to CC dads) with a giving heart. I decided to row over to the island and provide some fictional spirit-guiding to the DUmmies.
The stench seeped through the respirator that I was wearing as I roamed the island stepping over varying piles of trash, feces, and apparently passed-out drunks and/or druggies. After stumbling several times over the island’s build up of hatred and hypocrisy I noticed a campfire. I thought I was finally going to get to do my good deed and provide some fictional spirit-guiding, but much to my shock and dismay the DUmmies around the fire were attacking my beloved Georgia.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014818148
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 05:33 PM
alp227 (25,850 posts)
Feds: Georgia can’t tie food stamps to drug tests
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia cannot implement a new law requiring drug tests for some food stamp applicants and recipients, federal officials told the state Tuesday.
The law, passed by the Legislature in March and signed by Gov. Nathan Deal, would require testing in cases where state workers have a “reasonable suspicion†that the person is using drugs. It is scheduled to go into effect on July 1.
But U.S. Department of Agriculture policy “prohibits states from mandating drug testing of (food stamp) applicants and recipients,†according to a letter from Robin D. Bailey, regional administrator of the USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
Read more: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/feds-georgia-cant-tie-food-stamps-to-drug-tests/ngDCQ/
Response to alp227 (Original post)
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 05:36 PM
bpj62 (366 posts)
1. States Rights
1,2,3 wait for it because you know that good ole Nathan Deal will not be able to keep his mouth shut. Never mind the fact that Food Stamps are a federal subsidy. I've said it before and I will say it again the South lost the Civil war 150 years ago but they are still fighting it today.
Response to bpj62 (Reply #1)
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 06:15 PM
AAO (3,175 posts)
2. Watch them decide they don't want any food stamps to go to their state.
Just like Medicare. **** the people!
Or maybe they decided that if people can afford drugs they ought to be able to afford food and do not need food stamps, Actually an Anal Orifice.
Response to AAO (Reply #2)
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 06:20 PM
NutmegYankee (6,617 posts)
3. These are the same people who chose "massive resistance" in the 60s.
Rather than integrate schools, they shut down the public school systems.
That was your democrat party brethren, dipshit.
Response to bpj62 (Reply #1)Tue Jun 3, 2014, 11:20 PM
billhicks76 (961 posts)
22. Test For IQ
Test all Georgia State Reps for IQ if they wish to stay in office. They would fail.
Believe it or not, I'd be willing to go along with IQ testing if it also applied to the folks in federal office. Do you remember the democrat party member's concern about too many people causing the island to tip over, ball licker? Reckon how he'd do on said test?
Response to alp227 (Original post)Tue Jun 3, 2014, 06:20 PM
Star Member jwirr (23,157 posts)
4. Food Stamps is a federal program and the states do not make the rules. Hands off Georgia.
If I understand things correctly, the food stamp program is a federal program that is administered by the state.
Now let me try to wrap my mind around this thing...
Employees of the federal government (the institution that originated the program) can be drug tested. Employees of the state government (the institution that administers the program) can be drug tested. The working citizens (who actually fund the program) who work for companies that require drug tests can be drug tested. So out of all of these people (the originators, the administrators, the funders, and the recipients), the only ones who can NOT be drug tested are those who reap the benefit of the program. BRILLIANT!
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Response to AAO (Reply #2)
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 06:20 PM
NutmegYankee (6,617 posts)
3. These are the same people who chose "massive resistance" in the 60s.
Rather than integrate schools, they shut down the public school systems.
...and when it was all done in the south, then integration and busing came home to Boston, Mass......all hell broke loose.
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Response to AAO (Reply #2)
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 06:20 PM
NutmegYankee (6,617 posts)
3. These are the same people who chose "massive resistance" in the 60s.
Rather than integrate schools, they shut down the public school systems.
...and when it was all done in the south, then integration and busing came home to Boston, Mass......all hell broke loose.
Has this DU fool looked at a calendar in the past 40 or 50 years? The people who did that are mostly in nursing homes or graves. And who knows? Maybe over those 5 decades (and before dying) they realized how horrible they had been. Some people actually grow in wisdom as they grow in age ... the DU fool who posted this seems to be an exception.
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A brief account of Bostonian Desegregation NIMBYism. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_busing_crisis)
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Everyday the scumbags of DU find a new way to disgust me.
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Basically, the DUmmies are bitching and whining about the state of Georgia instituting a policy to verify the people receiving food stamps are actually using said food stamps to by...FOOD! :thatsright:
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A brief account of Bostonian Desegregation NIMBYism. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_busing_crisis)
Ah yes, the desegregation of Boston.
You know, I go through a lot of books, and hence am usually giving boxes and boxes of them away, but one book I've always kept is Uncommon Ground, 1985, by J. Anthony Lukas, a well-written and highly-illuminating description of the school crisis in Boston during the late 1960s, early 1970s.
I recommend it to primitives who happen to be literate; the author after all was about as "left" as Saul Alinsky or Noam Chomsky.
Despite his ideological bent, though, the book's been hailed as a pretty definitive, unbiased history, and it presents conclusions sharply contradictory with liberalthought or primitivethought.
It's a story of affluent white liberals imposing their will upon powerless poor whites and powerless poor blacks; "sacrifices are for 'other people' to bear."
Drunken Bill of Skins's island was in kindergarten through about the third grade, when this crisis was going on. One can easily see Mama Raven, picketing for desegregation, and at the same time doing her best to insure that lilliputian Bill remained in a lily-white school.
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Ah yes, the desegregation of Boston.
Drunken Bill of Skins's island was in kindergarten through about the third grade, when this crisis was going on. One can easily see Mama Raven, picketing for desegregation, and at the same time doing her best to insure that lilliputian Bill remained in a lily-white school.
But wait.
I thought they said diversity was a huge advantage, not just a means of supplying predators with easy prey.
On the other hand, little pre-alcohol Bill would probably have been a lot like a baby zebra in a "diverse" school.
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Basically, the DUmmies are bitching and whining about the state of Georgia instituting a policy to verify the people receiving food stamps are actually using said food stamps to by...FOOD! :thatsright:
[Sarcasm] It's just so outrageous that they people paying for these people's meal tickets would want to verify that they are not voluntarily in need of aid and that they are not using their aid for other than the intended purpose! [Sarcasm]
IMO, it's abusive that food stamp recipients (literal or EBT Card) can (legally) use them to buy soda, chips, and snack cakes! It's supposed to be for basic nutrition, not virtually nutrition-free crap!
Edit: Hey! I got my first "Bitch-Slap"! Cool! I was getting worried at not getting on anyone's nerves ... doing something wrong ... or not quite right enough ...
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Everyday the scumbags of DU find a new way to disgust me.
They always reach a new low. :mental:
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But wait.
I thought they said diversity was a huge advantage, not just a means of supplying predators with easy prey.
On the other hand, little pre-alcohol Bill would probably have been a lot like a baby zebra in a "diverse" school.
That book was kind of an eye-popper when I first read it.
Remember, it was written from a wholly "left-wing" point of view, and one expected it to be sympathetic to one certain side, and hostile to the other side.
But then, oooops. The writer, a journalist for many left-wing publications, frankly admitted to the media slandering of Louise Day Hicks, who apparently was a decent, civilized, and unracist sort of person.
But the biggest deal was near the beginning, when the writer pointed out that school desegregation failed to "up" the academic achievements of blacks, as neither did "diversity" or better schools.
The liberals and Democrats of the time said, "We know it won't work, but let's do it anyway."
The writer pointed out the only thing shown to improve academic perfomance is a strong two-parent family and a stable home life. The only thing.
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Ah yes, the desegregation of Boston.
You know, I go through a lot of books, and hence am usually giving boxes and boxes of them away, but one book I've always kept is Uncommon Ground, 1985, by J. Anthony Lukas, a well-written and highly-illuminating description of the school crisis in Boston during the late 1960s, early 1970s.
I recommend it to primitives who happen to be literate; the author after all was about as "left" as Saul Alinsky or Noam Chomsky.
Despite his ideological bent, though, the book's been hailed as a pretty definitive, unbiased history, and it presents conclusions sharply contradictory with liberalthought or primitivethought.
It's a story of affluent white liberals imposing their will upon powerless poor whites and powerless poor blacks; "sacrifices are for 'other people' to bear."
Drunken Bill of Skins's island was in kindergarten through about the third grade, when this crisis was going on. One can easily see Mama Raven, picketing for desegregation, and at the same time doing her best to insure that lilliputian Bill remained in a lily-white school.
You may also find All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald of interest. He was a child in Southie during the bussing era and describes how the Democrats of the area used the issue to create a bunker mentality among the poor in South Boston. Naturally, this ensured many re-elections to come from a community that felt disenfranchised, helpless, and attacked, a strategy more commonly associated with Rev. Al et al. nowadays.
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Ah yes, the desegregation of Boston.
You know, I go through a lot of books, and hence am usually giving boxes and boxes of them away, but one book I've always kept is Uncommon Ground, 1985, by J. Anthony Lukas, a well-written and highly-illuminating description of the school crisis in Boston during the late 1960s, early 1970s.
I recommend it to primitives who happen to be literate; the author after all was about as "left" as Saul Alinsky or Noam Chomsky.
Despite his ideological bent, though, the book's been hailed as a pretty definitive, unbiased history, and it presents conclusions sharply contradictory with liberalthought or primitivethought.
It's a story of affluent white liberals imposing their will upon powerless poor whites and powerless poor blacks; "sacrifices are for 'other people' to bear."
Drunken Bill of Skins's island was in kindergarten through about the third grade, when this crisis was going on. One can easily see Mama Raven, picketing for desegregation, and at the same time doing her best to insure that lilliputian Bill remained in a lily-white school.
OH Frank, You and others here do bring back some memories from the past.
I at the time, young, could not understand why kids had to ride a school bus one hour each way to go to school with people outside their neighborhood.
Seemed like all was going well, the kids all went to the walking distance schools lived around their classmates, any kind of school activity's the parents and siblings could attend. Most of the parents knew the teachers as they lived in the neighborhood.
When this Tom Foolery busing started I was WTF----How did the poor family's get into the city's when they had little transportation. How could they have any connection with the school, teachers or their children's friends and family's ?
Then the poor whites that were terrified to drive through slums and appeared that they were to get mugged when they got out of their cars to attend a child's school what ever.
Heck of a mess, the Catholic Church began to build neighborhood schools got the Irish and Italian students, no more hour bus rides and back to neighborhood values.
I saw on TV a news program out of Boston sometime back then that showed a Boston school bus come to pick up kids 5-6 years old to be bussed to some white school out of the neighborhood.
So disturbing I called my kids in to watch, These little black kids were terrorized when a bunch of White men attacked the bus and them. This was one of those times one does not want to be alone watching what could happen to your kids were things reversed.
Everything started to go down hill from there.