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Mystery Woman Pays Bill for Whole Restaurant and Leaves Hefty Tip for Servers

June 13, 2013 at 11:28am

In reply to gobluebuckeye.

Because the folks that ate the food left nothing for the waitresses/servers…

Were I there, I’d have left a tip on the table, and I suspect more than a few did as well.

The ultimate question is were the waitress/server’s tip jars lighter or heavier at the end of the shift, and the answer to that question isn’t in the article.
Pro-Life Activists Reveal Gruesome Reasons Gosnell, Abortion Doctors Snip Babies’ Spines

June 11, 2013 at 1:26pm

In reply to vaman.

CHARLES116 wrote:

“Women are not baby-making machines.
No woman should have to carry an unwanted fetus to full term
to make some of you happy.
Period.”

What about the men and women that come together and make the baby in the first place?

You act as if these pregnancies are occurring through no fault of the womb-bearer (“mother” just doesn’t seem appropriate) or the fertilizer-spreader (again, “father” just doesn’t seem appropriate) – we know what “causes” pregnancy, they (most likely) choose to engage in that behavior, they (obviously) choose not to employ adequate protection, and then, after months of debating, decide to terminate the life THEY CREATED.

I’ve only heard of one case of immaculate conception.
Nice Work If You Can Get It: Ex-City Official Earned More Than $330K Last Year without Working a Single Day, Report Finds

June 10, 2013 at 8:32am

She “earned” two additional months of vacation while using up her unused vacation time?

The real issue here is that she was given the “option” to remain on the payroll, garnering benefits, salary increases, and additional vacation time when she was terminated. She should have been cut a check on her last day and shown the door.

And her pension kicks in the day she leaves the payroll – $15K/month for life, presumably with lifetime benefits as well.
Schools’ Funding Could Be Threatened if Gay Students Are Bullied or Harassed Under Rewrite of U.S. Education Law

June 5, 2013 at 7:30am

So now the federal gov’t will step in and judge if your local school district ‘appropriately’ responded to one student calling another student ‘a ***’ or ‘girlie’ and decide if the school should continue to receive federal funding? That’s awesome, will ugly, stupid, socially awkward, and fat kids be afforded the same protections?

Welcome to the new normal – ‘all kids are equal – some kids are more equal than others’…
Washington Post Releases Another White House Fact Check: And This One Slams Admin on…Benghazi Claim

May 21, 2013 at 9:24am

In reply to love the kids.

Bet it won’t.

We can always pivot back to this – just like we did after Hurricane Sandy… If anything, this hiatus will prolong the discussion, taking it ever closer to the 2014 election.
CNN Refutes Major Part of ABC’s Bombshell Benghazi Report…But Is There an Explanation?

May 15, 2013 at 11:14am

In reply to PA PATRIOT.

What does his wife’s job at Planned Parenthood have to do with ANYTHING?

PP is not part of the administration.

PP is not/has not been a frequent subject of his reporting.

As a reporter, Jake is about as good as we have in the mainstream media.
MSNBC Anchor’s ‘Easy’ Solution to Ending Poverty: ‘Giving People Money’

May 12, 2013 at 11:46pm

In reply to annie-oakley.

Yes.
MSNBC Anchor’s ‘Easy’ Solution to Ending Poverty: ‘Giving People Money’

May 12, 2013 at 11:45pm

Brilliant – I never would have thought of that answer!

We can give poor people free healthcare (SCHIP, Medicaid).

We can give poor people money for food (SNAP, AKA Food Stamps.

We can give poor people money for other things (Welfare).

If that poor person happens to have children, we can give them even more money (WIC).

We can give poor people money to help pay their rent (Section 8).

We can give poor people free public education, and when their schools fail we can offer them charter schools (in some locations).

If/when poor people graduate from high school we can offer them tens of thousands of assistance to attend college (Pell Grants).

Etc.

We tried these “solutions” – it doesn’t work – it hasn’t for the last fifty years.
Unemployment Benefits Take Another Dip

May 9, 2013 at 1:09pm

In reply to ssbstspd.

I’ve been wondering this myself, but I think it works out like this:

327,000 lose their jobs, but that doesn’t mean their jobs went away – it simply means they no longer work where they used to work AND have filed for unemployment benefits. Remember, this statistic tracks the worker, not the job.

125,000 new workers enter the workforce per month (on average)

140,000 net NEW jobs are ADDED to the workforce.

The vast majority of the workers that lose their jobs represent opportunities for previously unemployed workers to get jobs, not jobs that disappear.

What I find troubling is that 1/1000th of the US population visits the unemployment office each week!

327,000 unemployment applications per week/ 327,000,000 total US population = 1/1,000 per week
Senators Revolt Against Illegal Abortions and Gosnell’s Alleged ‘House of Horrors’ With This Resolution

May 7, 2013 at 5:20pm

In reply to freeberty.

First off, he’s interested in making sure the abortion facilities women visit are clean, safe, and sanitary – clinics like the Gosnell clinic in PHL were cespools of filth and disease, women died from easliy preventable infections from things like unclean facilities, non-sterile instruments, etc.

Second, he never said this bill was about “banning” or “ending” abortions, it is about protecting the health of the mother – period.

Women died after visiting this facility, yet no officials ever EVER bothered to cross through the doorway and inspect the facility… That is unacceptable.

Why does it take some women 7-8 months to decide to have an abortion? The issue here is late-term abortions, after 20 weeks (AKA 5 months after conception, the mother would have missed what, four periods by then?)