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N.C. Could Soon Find a Way to Penalize Hybrid Owners for All That Gas They’re Saving

May 31, 2013 at 10:03pm

In reply to Wumingren.

If people’s homes were powered by solar, they’d be fueling up their cars on sunshine. It’s free and it’s there every day. We’re just too stupid to make it a priority to improve the solar technology until we can all get it at Home Depot and install it in a weekend. We should have reached that point 20 years ago instead of letting ourselves be manipulated by the oil and gas companies.
N.C. Could Soon Find a Way to Penalize Hybrid Owners for All That Gas They’re Saving

May 31, 2013 at 9:59pm

In reply to TSUNAMI_22.

The southern half of this country lives in virtually perpetual sunshine. The fact that we have not pushed our research to the point where all our homes and all our cars are fueled by that clean and ever-present resource just speaks to our stupidity. Instead, we allow ourselves to be manipulated by the oil and gas companies against our own interests. We produce enough oil and gas in this country to fuel our industries and our long-range trucks. With individuals running on sunshine,we could be totally free of the crooks and liars in the Middle East oil trade, but oh no….. Instead, we give subsidies out of our tax dollars to oil and gas companies making billions in profits. We might be the only species ever to go extinct from sheer stupidity.
Proposed Bill in Wisconsin Would Allow Lawmakers to Peek Into Bank Accounts of the Unemployed

May 31, 2013 at 9:50pm

In reply to Conservative2.

If you have worked your **** off to get a college degree and you’ve gone $100K in debt to do it, you should have a chance to look for a comparable job to the one you lost. Furthermore, there is no real advantage to the state in forcing such a person to immediately take a $15K a year job to replace a $50K a year job because that would almost inevitably lead to a bankruptcy. And those end up costing everybody.

Stop trying to characterize everybody who has lost a job – through no fault of their own or they wouldn’t qualify for unemployment in the first place – as liars, thieves and leeches. Most are hard-working people who’ve suffered a very tough set-back and who are trying to keep their family housed and fed on unemployment payments that amount to a fraction of their former salary. They’re your neighbors, not your enemies.
Proposed Bill in Wisconsin Would Allow Lawmakers to Peek Into Bank Accounts of the Unemployed

May 31, 2013 at 9:43pm

Unemployment is INSURANCE that YOU pay for. Should your car insurance company have the right not to pay your claim after an accident if you happen to have $100K in your retirement account? Of course not. Nor does the government have any business investigating the bank accounts of people who apply for unemployment benefits. If they’ve worked and paid the premiums, and you meet the other criteria to qualify, that’s all that should matter. This proposed bill represents a serious case of government over-reach, and it would set a very dangerous precedent.
14-Year-Old Holding a Puppy Slammed to the Ground and Put in Chokehold for Giving Police ‘Dehumanizing Stares’

May 31, 2013 at 12:46pm

In reply to Rowgue.

Agreed. And while we’re at it, shame on the prosecutor for help these thug cops cover their behinds. He should have refused to lay charges against the kid. . The only thing this prosecutor is accomplishing is letting the thugs know they can behave this way and get away with it.
Liberal Site’s Shock Article on Slain SEAL: ‘If Chris Kyle Had Been a Muslim, We’d Call Him an Extremist’

May 30, 2013 at 12:51pm

In reply to billyclub.

No. What they’re saying is that Kylie was fueled by religious zealotry, and that is a trait he shares with zealots of any religion, including Muslims. Nevertheless, it was a stupidly-written article and a poorly made point. I think what the author was trying to point out, using Kyle as an example, is that we have a real problem with religious zealots trying to redefine the U.S. military as some kind of army of God. It’s not, it’s the U.S. army and religious zealotry in some of our troops is something to guard against. A war on terror is not the same as a religious crusade, even though some would like it to be.
Liberal Site’s Shock Article on Slain SEAL: ‘If Chris Kyle Had Been a Muslim, We’d Call Him an Extremist’

May 30, 2013 at 12:24pm

In reply to civilwarcometh.

I have no hatred for this man but I don’t think he should ever have been allowed in the military. There are too many Christian fundamentalists trying to recast the American military as “God’s warriors” in a religious crusade. That is NOT who we are, and it’s not what the war on terrorism is supposed to be about.
This Is How Americans With No Religion Feel About Abortion (Plus: Are Most Women Really Pro-Choice?)

May 16, 2013 at 11:44am

In reply to Locked.

Ask the question “Do you want Roe v. Wade overturned?” and you will get a “No” from more than 60% to 70% every time.

Every effort to criminalize abortion, to remove a woman’s choice, is faced with the same reality. In order to legally force a woman to carry an unwanted pregnancy, you have to remove that woman’s civil rights. You have to say that the state is now the de facto owner of that woman’s uterus and she has no right to make decisions about her own body. At it’s core, that is fascist and repugnant to people who believe in the Constitution.

The fact is you cannot remove my kidney after I die in order to perform a life-saving transplant without my prior consent. A person’s body is considered sacrosanct. It’s an enormous philosophical leap from there to saying the state can control my uterus even though I am a fully alive, breathing citizen. To say the state has the right to impose the health risks that go with pregnancy, no matter what my doctor advises, no matter what I want or my husband wants. That’s only possible in a fascist state.

And we’re only discussing it at all because it’s an issue about women, whose rights are still considered 2nd class in this country. Witness rape culture for proof. Men know it’s not OK to steal the wallet of a man who falls asleep on the train, but they think they’re justified in stealing sex from a woman who had too much to drink? Disgusting double standard.

You cannot rightly own a woman anoth
‘Very Frightening’: Prominent Catholic Prof. Claims IRS Audited Her After Speaking Out Against Obama and Demanded to Know Who Was Paying Her

May 15, 2013 at 4:27pm

In reply to cosmic dogma.

So because she penned articles critical of Obama, should she be immune from a random audit? Or if somebody who was paying her was audited and found to be manipulating their books – one of the most common reasons a person gets audited – should she get a special pass because she happened to write something negative about Obama? NOBODY enjoys being audited, but if her books were in order none of the questions she was asked are out of line. To say the IRS is not allowed to ask where income derives from is patently silly. To imagine they targeted this insignificant woman to ”intimidate” into not writing any more is even sillier. You have to be really reaching to find a conspiracy out of this one.
‘Very Frightening’: Prominent Catholic Prof. Claims IRS Audited Her After Speaking Out Against Obama and Demanded to Know Who Was Paying Her

May 15, 2013 at 2:29pm

In reply to ByDawnsEarlyLight.

While we’re at it, let’s have this lady give a sworn deposition. People are audited at random all the time and her account seems a little convenient to me.

Believe it or not, the process for choosing tax payers to audit is very stringent, specifically to avoid the abuse of power this woman is describing. If an IRS auditor behaved as she claims, he or she would be subject to firing immediately. Do you really think auditors would risk their jobs to ”intimidate” a lady who was merely criticizing other church organizations? I’m very doubtful of the veracity of this account.