Thursday Night Open Thread
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An NFL football coach once said - "if you're gonna talk the talk, you better walk the walk." This blog is nothing more than the rantings of a proud military vet and pissed off liberal who's had enough of the right-wing bullshit that is tarnishing America's image not only at home but around the world. Time to fight back and tell the conservative assholes exactly where they can shove their plans for an un-democratic America!
2008 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee suggested during his radio show, "The Huckabee Report," on Thursday that, under President Obama's health care plan, Kennedy would have been told to "go home to take pain pills and die" during his last year of life.
"[I]t was President Obama himself who suggested that seniors who don't have as long to live might want to consider just taking a pain pill instead of getting an expensive operation to cure them," said Huckabee.
It has been suggested that most modern conservatives are a bunch of fear-mongering, war-mongering, religiously insane, hate-spewing, ignorant, gullible, sexually repressed closet perverts and moral cowards, prompting fears that widespread knowledge of such a reality might cause still semi-sane people to view the Republican party as an imminent danger to Democracy and America's future existence. Does this possibility concern you?
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[_] NO
[_] I WATCH FOX NEWS AND I'M A BLITHERING IDIOT - I DON'T KNOW
By Tim Carpenter
Created August 26, 2009 at 6:50pm
Updated August 26, 2009 at 10:50pm
U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins offered encouragement to conservatives at a town hall forum that the Republican Party would embrace a "great white hope" capable of thwarting the political agenda endorsed by Democrats who control Congress and President Barack Obama.
5:27 p.m. EDT, Tue August 25, 2009
By Sally Holland
CNN
ARLINGTON, Virginia (CNN) -- American children aren't necessarily getting smarter or dumber, but that might not be good enough to compete globally, according to numbers cited Tuesday by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
The National Center for Education Statistics found U.S. students placed below average in math and science.
He noted a special analysis put out last week by the National Center for Education Statistics that compares 15-year-old U.S. students with students from other countries in the Organization for Economic Development.
It found the U.S. students placed below average in math and science. In math, U.S. high schoolers were in the bottom quarter of the countries that participated, trailing countries including Finland, China and Estonia.
According to the report, the U.S. math scores were not measurably different in 2006 from the previous scores in 2003. But while other countries have improved, the United States has remained stagnant.
In science, the United States falls behind countries such as Canada, Japan and the Czech Republic.